Mike Davidson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.”

“I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board.”

“If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.”

“Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.”

“For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.”

“For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.”

“We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.”