Really well-written markup provides the foundation of whatever you're building - sites, apps, thing-ama-bops. We forget that too often #html

Dec 29, 2012 · 1:12 AM UTC

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No, I wouldn't put George Takei in markup. In fact, he requires a unique approach, which I shall dub "The Oh My Takei API" @ArchAzrael
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@Tuna Here's my devil's advocate response: if that's the way someone really feels, they're in the wrong job.
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@Tuna To protect the client from litigation, from bad press, from ongoing excessive costs to re-engineer, rescale, retrain, manage change.
@Tuna But if everyone is happy and no one ever complains, that's great. I refer to those as "hobbyists" - no matter how successful.
Of all people to ask these questions of, I'm simply not the gal. And maybe if you're not getting results, you need a new approach @Tuna
@Tuna Wow. If you're doing more than boutique sites, that entire company is going to suffer. @JamesSLock
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@Tuna @JamesSLock It's Friday night and I've spent the entire holiday week working on remediating other people's code. Evangelist mode: OFF
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@Tuna @mollydotcom third voice: has any SEO company been sued for not providing rich Snippet / #uf markup by keeping clients ignorant?
Replying to @mholzschlag
@mollydotcom I don’t.
@Tuna Good code saves money in the long term, also scalable & adaptable. @mollydotcom
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