Web Standards & Indian Web Designers

News Type: none — Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:21 PM EST

technology, india, web-design, web-standards, w3c

Many web designers in India are not aware of web standards, let alone conforming to them.

A small research on the home pages of top Indian web sites (well, top 10 results for india web design -hosting in Google) reveals the following figures: Out of 10 sites, only 2 sites pass W3C Validation. Out of 10 sites, only 4 sites have a DOCTYPE.

The main reasons for such low adaption of standards (I think) are (1) web designers intially learned it wrong and they are unwilling to relearn; and (2) majority of internet users in India are still in IE5.5 age. (There is no incentive for developing a standards complaint web site, but there is a burden of devising hacks to make it work properly in all the age-old web browsers. The number of people switching to modern browsers (read Firefox and Opera) is increasing but at a very slow pace.)

Recently, W3C has opend its Indian Office. It has a lot to do for education and outreach of standards in India.

Indian web designers have to learn and grow in order that they provide a good web experience to people of India and the World.

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jayk

I believe the statistics presented here are not very valid because of the small sample size. However, being an Indian and having seen how the software business currently works in India, I would not be surprised if this were the case even if a larger sample size is used. The common sentiment in India is to "get it done as fast as possible". People learn programming practices (sometimes bad) mostly from co-workers instead of from books or through their own research. This tends to keep the bad habits going. The focus is on getting things done and out the door instead of quality or standards compliance. Unless a client insists on standards compliance, the web designers are probably not going to conciously include it.

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#1 - Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:47 AM EST

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underived

while the efforts from the companies that claim to be doing web design are still so 97ish. The adoption of new trends has always been slow from these companies. And the individuals seems to be too few to make an impact at this moment. The lack of strict guidelines or laws even for the government sites shows the total lack of awareness and the need for better standards.

Reasons are many, There is a lack of support or understanding from the people involved in decision making Either the self proclaimed designers are too lazy do not want to adapt
Lack of laws, education, event and so on..

Glad at least individuals are moving things forward.

hopefully things will get better.

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#3 - Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:12 PM EST

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Veeven

Underived, thanks for the link (W3csites.com). I didn't know that before.

It's good to see the sites by those guys. Things are sure moving forward.

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#4 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:12 AM EST

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