Jeffery Veen has a great article praising the business value of web standards.
If you feel like coding to standards is too much work, this article explains the cost savings that can be had by coding to standards. Articles like this are great because they encourage those of us in the trenches to take half a step back to acquire a little bit of perspective. One of the points is that you can’t ignore the increased efficiency that standards bring to large scale efforts involving huge numbers of people engaged in common efforts who might otherwise plow ahead with very little regard for the efforts of others. The article is certainly worth a read.
