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The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards

Posted by TimSlavin at February 11, 2005

"A significant portion of any Web designer's development time is spent ensuring that code works and looks right in a broad range of browsers. If your organization is in the advantageous position to drop support for Netscape 4.7 and IE 4 and 5, you can expect a time reduction of anywhere from 15-35% in the HTML development phase of Web development. This equates directly to significant dollar savings.

Another way to save money even if you can't drop support for Netscape 4.7 and IE 4 is by coding to standards that older browsers support."

Excellent discussion of the cost savings derived from coding with web standards. From Digital Web Magazine.

One interesting fact from this article: Netscape 4 usage on one highly trafficked site (W3Schools, who have an interest in reporting low numbers) is .2%. Which got me checking my stats. On this site, N4 is 1%, N3 is 2% (!), Firefox is 30%, and IE6 is 52%. Things have definitely changed towards standards based browsers.
URLs:

http://digital-web.com/articles/building_to_standards/

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