On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > XHTML using CSS gives the standards-orientated web developer much more > control - way beyond, for instance, what the bars look like - over the > look of the page as well as potentially reducing the download size, by > moving style instructions to the stylesheet. >
The separation of markup and style is not really a valid argument, becuse analog already allows the user to specify a style sheet. > Anything which promotes adherence to such standards, which we must > remember are several years old now and well supported by browsers, should > be encouraged, in my view. > What I'm most worried about is people who have to use text browsers over a slow connection, or speaking browsers because they're blind. Although I still know a surprising number of people who are stuck with old browsers because their machine won't run newer ones -- maybe I just know too many people in cash-strapped academic departments. 99% coverage isn't good enough as far as I'm concerned, at least not when I don't see any compensating improvement from changing to XHTML. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." (Edsger W. Dijkstra) +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
