blah blah blah
Nobody who matters cares about this so it is fair to say that you are
wasting everyones time and bandwidth.
On Sep 15, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote:
From: Wijnand Wiersma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2005/9/14, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
"Matthias Herlitzius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IMHO a redesign should use XHTML/CSS. Otherwise it would
be hard to
realize proper accessibility for lynx :-)
Contrary to popular belief, neither lynx nor screenreaders
give a damn
about buzzword compliance. And using xhtml just because
all the cool
kids are doing it is pretty stupid.
But using it because it is the correct thing to do and is the
standard by
which web browsers are designed to render hypertext is not stupid.
Matter of
fact, the current website mostly follows those standards. Proper
termination
of tags, the DOCTYPE tag, the Content-Type meta tag and so forth
are already
implemented on the site and are called for in XHTML, not HTML.
And there is no use for using xhtml if you don't use xml stuff.
And HTML is so different from XML?
html is better if you just want to serve a static webpage.
CSS is good by the way, but xhtml is really just a buzzword nowadays
and even the big promoters are crawling back now.
On which planet is that the case? XHTML is the vehicle of proper
web design,
today. To call CSS good and XHTML bad is dumb considering they are
both
standards which are picking up the pieces of HTML that are being
(have been)
deprecated. Is there someone besides the W3C that you know of who is
defining web standards these days? Someone else defining what needs
to be
supported in user agents for standards-based, congruent rendering
of web
page content? We're a little past the buzzwords argument now - you're
already living with the new standards. Catch up.
And I think the proposed design is ugly, making the current design
better can still be done without loosing the current style look.
Regardless of your outlook on the standards bit, this is true. I
still agree
that the current website is fine as it is. Sounds like the only
problem is
that some folks are finding lynx inconvenient to use on the
website. Shame.
DS
