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Why aren’t experts like Microsoft being expert?

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

It shocks me to see web programming examples breaking the rules of accessibility and common practices in published books. I don’t feel it sets the greatest of examples to anyone trying to get a foot in the industry when supposed authorities on subjects cannot even get it correct in their own publications. Take Microsoft Press for instance. Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5, published 2008. This is written by Dino Esposito, an authority on ASP.NET and AJAX. When it comes to writing HTML he seems to have forgotten the fact that we keep the code in lowercase. All of his HTML examples begin with a capital letter. Now I understand that ASP.NET is different and uses some uppercase characters for server side controls, but please let us not forget the industry standard for writing static HTML. Long have the days passed when HTML tags were written in complete uppercase and contained now deprecated elements such as FONT and CENTER.Furthermore another example I have spotted failed to include a DOCTYPE and the appropriate XML format for closing a HR tag. I realise this is not the purpose of the book and that the level of reader will most likely have a full understanding of how we conduct ourselves as web designer and developers in 2008. But why do experts insist on writing poor examples?

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