On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:34:35AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > complex). Unless the HTML writer makes the needed concessions to > text-only browsers, graphics rendering is worthless. Well, ALT is *not* optional in HTML and newer. If webmasters are going to use HTML 4 still, they should bother to learn the standard at some point during the five or six years it's been around. Failing that, thier boss should see thier incompetance in basic HTML for what it is and can thier ass. > It is certainly a goal to shoot at. The reality is that most people use > browsers that are a couple (or more) releases behind. You cannot forget > that the overwhelming majority are users. By comparisons, Linux tends > to draw user/administrators. > By suggesting that the customer is at fault because he can't see your > site the way you intended it be seen, is to suggest they are not > welcome. Remember, the average visitor to a web site has no idea what a > bug report is. You imply that the webmaster has final say in how thier website looks, when this is not the case. Webmasters need to realise that browser windows come in many shapes and sizes, and specifying widths in pixels breaks things for people on smaller or larger displays, or even using a different window manager or web browser. > What is more reasonable, the shopkeeper cater to the customer --- or > vice versa? Neither. Not everybody drives a Honda, so why have Honda shaped parking spaces? Wouldn't it make sense to have spaces roughly the width of a standard traffic lane and as long as a car length? If so, why do you think it's acceptable to use the equivilent of triangular parking spaces when W3C tells you at length what a reasonable parking space looks like? The W3C isn't oblivious to what's going on in the industry, they state the common ground. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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