I'm proud of my work and what I do. I love to deliver high quality products. And I love working with the SharePoint suite of products. My problem right now is that these two things aren't fully compatible! And it hurts.
Part of delivering a quality web site, be it internal or external, is that it fully conforms to a standard of some sort. In this day and age, that means either HTML 4.0 or XHTML 1.0. The bad news is that the out-of-the-box SharePoint installation... well... just isn't quite up to the task.
As a developer, you'll have to do some additional work to get closer to the standard. Now, truth be told, I think that the product I deliver is good enough. We've done successful tests with visually impaired, to mention one example. But for a perfectionist like me, it still is painful to se my solution not fully validating to the W3C compatibility checker.
Of course, I've talked to Microsoft about this. They basically refer me to this article:
http://zac.provoke.co.nz/archive/2007/04/19/guide-to-making-sharepoint-xhtml-compliant.aspx
Oh well... Who knows what Service Pack 2 will contain... :-)
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The trouble some developers have to develop products that creates correct HTML/XHTML is simply a mystery. Maybe it has to do with some kind of difficult switch between mindsets. That's at least my theory. You could be the world's greatest C# coder - you still might suck as an HTML coder if you don't care to put some effort in learning how to follow the standards.
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