Hi Folks My University's website design is based on a table layout (no comments needed!). The publishing system only allows the addition of content in one area, which is actually a single table cell. Developers are expected to use the minimum of HTML, and preferably no JavaScript at all. It's pretty restrictive, and standard university web pages are fairly dull, as you might imagine.
Normally I'd be sympathetic to developers who bent the system rules a bit (a few in-line styles etc).. But in the pages I'm bothered about, a whole (or nearly whole) HTML page has been dumped into the (user content area) table cell. Each page source is very lengthy, but you'll see what I mean - just search for a second <head> or <html> tag. http://www.rmit.edu.au/ad/arch .. http://www.rmit.edu.au/industrial http://www.rmit.edu.au/ad ...and so on (plenty more of these in that part of the website) It's been very difficult for me to make a case to change these pages, because they look fine (if you don't check the structure). In fact they look better than a lot of other pages on the university web site. Should these pages be changed.. or should *I* have my head examined? My main question is - why do browsers allow this kind of mess to work? Cheers, Meredith Kidby Teaching & Learning Online Group Design & Social Context Portfolio RMIT Univesity ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
