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<p>BROWSER INCOMPATIBILITIES INCREASE WEB SITE COSTS AND THREATEN TO FRAGMENT<br />
THE WEB, ACCORDING TO LEADING WEB DEVELOPERS</p>
<p>Los Angeles, August 10, 1998 - Resolving incompatibilities among browsers<br />
adds at least 25 percent to the cost of building Web sites, according to<br />
The Web Standards Project (WSP), a newly-formed international coalition of<br />
leading Web developers dedicated to promoting a worldwide standard for Web<br />
and browser design. Calling on browser makers to live up to promises made<br />
in July 1997, the WSP ( <a href="http://www.webstandards.org" title="http://www.webstandards.org">http://www.webstandards.org</a> ) is urging browser<br />
makers to fully support the standards created by the Worldwide Web<br />
Consortium (W3C) in the upcoming round of browser releases, as well as<br />
support emerging standards that are being developed. Otherwise, contends<br />
the WSP, millions of dollars will continue to be wasted each year on Web<br />
development.</p>
<p>"The time for proprietary innovation in Web browsers is past," says Glenn<br />
Davis, Chief Technology Officer of Project Cool, Inc., a Palo Alto-based<br />
educational resource center for Web development. "It's time for the<br />
Microsoft and Netscape helped develop and promised to support - so that<br />
people building Web sites can spend more time building better sites and<br />
less time fighting browsers over compatibility issues that create unneeded<br />
expenses for everyone, at every level of the Web."</p>
<p>Currently, beta versions of both Netscape's Navigator 4.5 and Microsoft's<br />
Internet Explorer 5.0 are adding more proprietary enhancements without<br />
providing complete support for existing standards. ))Because the 5.0<br />
browsers will likely become a new baseline for desktop ))browsers due to<br />
their support for XML, the WSP believes that resolving the current<br />
patchwork support for HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, Document Object Model<br />
and ECMAScript is crucial.</p>
<p>"Because Web developers have to build multiple versions or perform<br />
time-consuming workarounds to accommodate visitors on different browsers,<br />
most shy away from using proprietary features because of the extra costs<br />
involved," says George Olsen, ))Design Director and Web Architect at 2-Lane<br />
Media in Los Angeles. "While clients may want to see these features, few of<br />
them are willing to pay for having the site built more than once."</p>
<p>In addition to increasing the cost of Web sites, the lack of common<br />
standards is breeding a sense of frustration among developers who face the<br />
progressively difficult task of performing workaround upon workaround.<br />
"Most of my design ideas are really simple, but executing them consistently<br />
across Internet Explorer 3 & 4, as well as Navigator 3 & 4 is anything<br />
but," says Jeffrey Zeldman, a New York Web publisher/designer. "I have to<br />
engage in laborious workarounds, simply to end up with a very basic design<br />
that works."</p>
<p>This lack of consistent support for sophisticated presentation standards,<br />
such as Cascading Style Sheets, has its long-term effects as well,<br />
according to the WSP. As the difficulty of building new workarounds on top<br />
of older ones increases, developers will focus on simpler solutions rather<br />
than concentrate on longevity. "In the absence of standards for these great<br />
technologies, we tend to create disposable content dismissively instead of<br />
sticking to a solid foundation for the long-term," says Martin Diekhoff,<br />
Web/Applications Developer for the Getty Information Institute.</p>
<p>Todd Fahrner, Design Technologist for Studio Verso in San Francisco, adds,<br />
"browser makers should try to take the long view, and realize that<br />
surviving the 'browser war' won't matter much if the Web itself breaks<br />
apart. Supporting the standards might sound like an altruistic goal in a<br />
competitive market, but developers and their clients are losing patience<br />
with compromised support for baseline standards like CSS1."</p>
<p>"The current problem will only be further complicated with the rise of<br />
television-based and PDA-based Web browsers," said Ann Navarro, owner of<br />
WebGeek Communications in Carmel Valley, CA, and treasurer for the HTML<br />
Writers Guild. Navarro said the WSP is also urging browser makers to<br />
participate in and support the efforts of the W3C's recently formed Mobile<br />
Access group, which will be developing standards for PDA and cell<br />
phone-based Web browsers.</p>
<p>About the Web Standards Project</p>
<p>The WSP's primary objective is to advance the Web development industry. Its<br />
effort to bring attention to the existing and potential problems involved<br />
with browser incompatibility does not mean the WSP is opposed to<br />
innovations by browser manufacturers. The coalition merely urges browser<br />
manufacturers to use open standards for enhancements and support existing<br />
ones before adding new features.</p>
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