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    <p>I did a stint as a UI Engineer for Barclays, a global bank. Now, I'll be the first to say that the financial industry has a long way to go when it comes to User Interface anything, and Barclays in particular is behind on their technology. That being said, they do know how to build things that effectively and reliably work, and the UI Lead is one of the most amazing minds I've ever had the opportunity to work with. Also, being a bank they are sticklers for compliance.</p> <p>We were using exactly the alternative you proposed, and it worked well for us. Sites reliably handled millions of users daily with no negative outcomes. UI work was simple, and as a bonus when the Federal Card act came along, the company could hire basic web folks to come in and do the cutup/html work which engineers could then bolt into the system.</p> <p>As for your XHTML question, ultimately we chose to go HTML 4.01 strict, and here's why: First, w3 has decided not to advance the XHTML working group...in essence, it's on its way to a slow death. Secondly, 4.01 strict is the closest to the HTML5 standard, and can fairly easily be adapted once 5 support becomes more widespread. A hard requirement for us was full compatibility on IE6, and this allowed us to achieve that goal.</p> <p>In your negotiations, I would personally argue that it's vital that the final product meet current web standards (W3) because that makes it most possible to achieve a site that is compatible with browsers out there (I say most possible because I'm convinced that Microsoft with find a way, somehow, to break everything that I build eventually...it's how they roll) Secondary for your site might be SEO concerns with non-compliant code, and hindrances to accessibility such as screen reader support. You might also try outputting two similar (simple) sites using either technology and do an analysis of performance. In the case of one website I worked on that was served 1 million times per day, a 5k file size savings translated to 5gb of data daily.</p> <p>Good luck! This is just one of many reason I got away from big corporate jobs using Java and Oracle....</p>
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