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revenge\/therapy \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd rant: web standards<\/p>\n

she’s full-on joined thoes of us who are enlightened.<\/p>\n

well, to web standards anyway – and is now spreading the love (or becoming dominating standards overlord who kills at the sight of invalid XHTML*) around the office.<\/p>\n

Yes, it also surprises me how little of the importance of standards compliance is taught to graduates. Same with coding. I think it would be a great reqirement for CS courses that you code something (that is then accepted into the main source tree) of an open source project (preferably a generally well known one with decent standards about what goes into the tree) How you would mark something like this i have no idea… maybe some form of peer-review\/marking thing.<\/p>\n

* Yes, I have been watching too much Alias since I got back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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