I must say though whilst I agree with the premise of Andys’ presentation that we must get a grip over standards and realise there is room for ivory snow, I can’t agree that the “battle” has been won.

The reason for this is that it’s not that clients do not care about web standards (there are enough tick boxes on ITTs to show that it’s often a consideration), rather it’s clients and for companies choosing in-house HR that cannot tell between companies/candidates that do and do not work with standards. The web standards “battle” will not be won until there is a easy way for those that shouldn’t have to care about standards (clients), being able to tell apart companies/developers that do and do not adhere to them, or there is universal professional adoption.

And a big thanks to Andy and Chris for such interesting presentations.

Only got to speak to a few people after the event (Hi Nigel, Steve, David and the Multimap guys :)) but it was great to see such a large bunch of geeks having fun

Looking forward to the next one

Phil

I enjoyed the seminar itself, though! It was great to see the Faces Of The Gurus and to get a glimpse of my fellow UK developers I didn’t even realise there were such events in the UK.

Thank you for organising it, Stuart.
Where will the photos be??