On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 19:28, David Mann wrote: > My page at http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ is valid HTML 4.01 > Transitional (but not strict). Created with Dreamweaver. It is an > extremely simple page however. <sarcasm> HTML 4.01! Pah, I don't bother with four year-old standards. Transitional, none the less. How last millennium.
XHTML 1.0 is where the action is at. If I ever figure out what XHTML modules are, and how to use them, then the action will be at XHTML 1.1. Until then, XHTML 1, CSS 2 :) I let my barbaric "l33t" cry out across the rooftops of the World. </sarcasm> > BTW the tutor who taught the DW course I went on last year was of the > opinion that you should only bother writing for MSIE. And he's done > pages for several high-profile businesses. 1. <cheeky>Why are you using Linux?</cheeky> 2. I find that the latest IE, Gecko and Opera browsers follow the standards very well. <rant>NS4 should be purged from the earth and IE < 6 will send you balmy with its oddities.</rant> 3. <rant>If you are only going to code for IE why are you bothering with Web pages anyway? Create Doc files opened by Win32 apps. That you will at least have more that a couple of widgets to throw at the user, and the interactivity that is so hard with Web applications becomes a lot easier. Those who write your documents can stick to the tools they know (Word and VB) and all is sweet with the world. You only cater to Windows users, but restricting yourself to IE does that anyway.</rant> (I actually feel strongly about 3, if you couldn't guess :) > BTW2 the problem with standards is not only getting the web > designers/developers to follow them, but also getting the web browsers to > format the same HTML in a consistent manner. The point of HTML is that it allows the browser to render the page AS THE USER SEES FIT. [Breathe... breathe...] You know a vanishingly small amount about my system. You do not know my fonts. You do not know my browser width. You do not know my display resolution. You do not know if I can *see!*. HTML accommodates all these problems. If you want total control over the design, use PDF, which can embed fonts and has excellent control over glyph and image placement. Designing Web pages like you would paper is using the wrong tool for the job. PDF is a fantastic format for what it does. So is HTML. So is OGG. So is SWF. But they are designed for different jobs. -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
