RE: [MACCAWS] Dogma W4

Seth, Tom and all,

First of all, thank you very much for reviewing the W4D 
proclamation. I do appreciate your comments and opinions. You 
helped me to recognize the week points of the document and I can 
see now, that it can be easily misunderstood.

> Maccaws has no use for such a stringent document.

Yes, not directly. On the other hand, web sites made to W4D are 
fully standards compliant in the same time and could serve as a 
great samples for the Maccaws project. W4D's co-author Petr 
Stanicek designed great standards compliant web sites. His 
Reflex is well known even abroad:

http://www.reflex.cz

Reflex is a big Czech lifestyle magazine and the web site is 
almost W4D compliant. Now Petr works on another newspaper web 
site -- one of the largest three Czech daily newspapers -- and 
it will be fully according to W4D.

> I think that many of us would disagree with many points
> on the document, I know that I did as well.

That's absolutely ok. W4D is not a universal manual. Even its 
authors are not going to make all web sites that way. On the 
other hand, it's an interesting challenge, what can be done with 
quite restrictive rules.

> For the authors, I say to them - your intentions are good,
> but I don't know who in the real world will adhere to it.

Well, http://www.maccaws.com/ is almost W4D compliant (except 
the main menu position and possibly few other details).

Thank you again for your time,

Marek Prokop
W4D: http://www.pixy.cz/dogmaw4/
CSS Workshop: http://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/