On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:53:07AM +0000, Barney Carroll wrote: > >* Users with images turned off see nothing > This is a difficult one. I have a FF extension that disables flash by > default (mostly to avoid downloading, seeing and hearing awful adverts), > and in doing so I am resigned to occasionally seeing the site in ways > the designer did not intend. I grumble at a lot of stuff, but when this > deprives me of content and/or the rest of the site refers to things I > don't understand, I blame only myself.
Hopefully the extension allows access to the alternative content that HTML allows to be provided. So while you might not get the same design as the author intended, the content is still available (except in certain special cases, such as games). > People who disable images fit into the same box as those people who > attach !important to their custom stylesheets... They are aware that > they are depriving themselves of the designer's intention. ... but still get the alt text, so they should still get the content (except for certain special cases such as photo galleries). HTML comes with built in methods of providing alternative content for pretty much everything that isn't text. There's no need to try to turn the concept upside down and have text replaced with other content using CSS - it doesn't work as well. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
