Advantages to Building with Web Standards
Digital Web Magazine - The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards
- unless a significant portion of your user base (i.e., both numerically and “commercially” significant) is still browsing with Netscape 4.7 and/or IE 4, you should be coding in XHTML and not HTML4.01
- dropping support for Netscape 4.7 and IE 4 and 5 results in a time reduction of anywhere from 15-35% in the HTML development phase of Web development
- using CSS can reduce the cost of updating a design significantly, even for older browsers
- standardized code is also easier to maintain; this again translates into a cost savings
- using standardized semantic markup and removing presentation elements from a page also enables search engines to read the content more easily, thus boosting search engine rankings
See also: Search Engine Watch - Web Standards vs. Search Friendly Sites: Can You Have Both?
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