Jason LaRiviere wrote:

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> The current breed of standards-based web developers - which in my

> estimation form the bulk of all web developers currently doing

> anything anyone is seeing, and of which I am fairly representative,

> would think nothing of the sort.

>

> Truly well-versed web developers find cross-browser issues bothersome,

> but far from insurmountable; certainly not worthy of abandoning xhtml,

> css and javascript for something with funny names and registered

> trademarks.

>

> [...]

>

> At a bank? Yeesh...

Even javascript is completely unnecessary in many cases.  I've yet to

see an online banking system that's usable via /usr/bin/lynx, even

though the browser supports both SSL and cookies.
And we're talking about a site you log into specifically to shift

numbers around...  There need not be any images, videos, scripts, or

other bloat...
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