On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002, at 09:50 Asia/Jerusalem, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> > Another point is that users would like more minimalistic and
> > standards-compliant sites better than sites with a lot of
> > bandwidth-overloading, DHTML/JS, useless bells and whistells madness.
> > Making your site basic and portable will eventually make it much more
> > popular, even among MSIE users.
>
> Well, standards-compliant != minimalist. You can have plenty of
> DHTML/JS bells and whistles while still being standards compliant.
> For example:
> http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
> http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/index.html
> http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/script/?m=14
> http://www.webstandards.org/learn/resources/dom/
>
> And this the whole point: They do not need tomake their site "ugly" or
> give up all the bells whistles in order to make their site work with
> all standard compliant browsers. IMO, having less bells and whistles is
> a different battle, and fighting it here might do more harm then good
> (as it might seem like a too radical change for site owners).
>
OK. If making a site fully standard-compliant will make it look and
function well on all browsers - I'm all for it. However, what I wanted to
say is that if you create a simple-minded site in FrontPage, it has a
greater chance of functioning well on all browsers than a site overloaded
with JavaScript/DHTML/animation/flash/Java/etc.
I like simple-minded sites, even those that are not fully standards
compliant because they load quickly, and look well on all browsers. Sites
with many bells and whistles which are standards compliant are OK I
suppose, but users using POTS modems will not like them as well. But
IE-specific sites that use a lot of bells and whistles, are horrifying.
Designing a simplistic site is another way of making the site function
well and behave well everywhere. It also greatly reduces the costs of
designing it and maintaining it.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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