A note to web designers

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

August 26, 2005

When a job listing says it requires knowledge of web standards, don’t bother applying if you haven’t changed your markup since 1998.

From the web page of a designer applying for the senior designer position at World Online:

<META NAME=GENERATOR CONTENT="Adobe PageMill 3.0 Mac">

Dude, don’t even bother.

(If your markup is better than that and you want to work for the best online news team in the world, why not apply?)

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