At 13:29 08/01/04 -0500, Sean Redmond wrote:
One thing people can do is to stop using Internet Explorer exclusively.
Look at your site with Opera, Mozilla, or Lynx.
<SNIP> The dominance of IE and Microsoft monoculture tends to distort how
(X)HTML has been designed to work in many different media. When you start
to appreciate the multiplicity of contexts in which your web pages might be
viewed, it's easier to rethink how your pages are built and your site
structured.
There are some good reasons for using XHTML and many even better ones
for using CSS but 'multiplicity of contexts' is a red herring. Whether we like
it or not, IE is dominant. Looking at the web stats for theClearances over
the last period, we had 660254 accesses by IE browsers against 2955 by
Opera and 5756 by Mozilla. In fact., we had more accesses by one
particular Web Spider than all the 'minority' browsers combined.
Improving accessibility is great; reaching more people with your museum
website and its cultural message is even better but, if that is the aim,
providing an Estonian or Xhosa language version of the content is likely
to be more relevant than recoding in XHTML.
Douglas
The Highland Clearances
http://www.theclearances.org
which, yes, does use CSS !
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