please don't CC: me, I read the first one just fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Mon, 10 Mar: > Quoting Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > users on linux > > blind users > > users on palm > > Is Palm standards-compliant? Last that I heard of it it had terrible Hebrew > problems.
it's not, but it's a thought. if the website is planned right, and display is seperated from functionality, you can get where you need. > > sticking to standards means it will work on older browsers as well (MSIE > > 4 and 5 anyone?) > > Which standards do you mean? Clean HTML4? Sure. DHTML based on W3C DOM is > standards-compliant, but will never work on MSIE 4. I'm not sure to this day what DOM is. sounds too BDSM to me, even if I'm a Terantino fan... and what's wrong with supporting MSIE4? > Ah, your advocacy is for a *simpler* site, not a *standard* site. > These two things are different. Do we want to put the effort in > convincing the man to give up his gadgets and toys? I would. I do business with schwab.com and wellsfargo.com and they would never dare to do anything more complex than very basic javascript (if at all) or a frame trick or two. that's it. no Java or flash or ActiveIchs. I'm a little biased at the moment, because I spent the last 3 hours debugging a stupid one-liner in javascript. it appears Mozilla is more leniant than MSIE with certain parameters... grrr. > whatever. If we require simplicity and stark naked HTML, he may > actually have many users who will moan about the "nice toys" that are > gone. if done well, things should look good AND be functional. nice toys are for chat rooms on tapuz, not for financial institutes. > Maybe even some bad publicity in the press, where a blockhead > who happens to write an Internet column will mention "Bank Leumi has > gone several years backwards in its new version of the site. Hello, > technology has advanced since 1995!". then give a "gadgety interface" and a straightforward HTML-only interface as a choice for older computeres/browsers/connections. Oh well... I can dream :) I tried to keep my own page "dehanced for Lynx" but once I installed PHP and Gallery, the road to hell is short :) -- Totaly mental Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
