On 11/28/05, Eric Faurot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/28/05, Jeremy David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/28/05, Eric Faurot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/28/05, Jeremy David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > The website is hacky, invalid, and broken. > > > > > > broken? which page? which browser? > > > > Hi. Thanks for joining the conversation, Eric. > > > > I appreciate your question, but I believe to cite a particular page > > which doesn't work as intended on a particular browser would be to > > miss the point. > > I just wanted to point that your original argument was wrong. You said "fix > it because it is broken for people", which is not true.
I would say that it is. "Broken" doesn't necessarily mean that it makes your browser crash. When you look at www.openbsd.org in lynx, every page has a bunch of links at the top that you have to scroll through endlessly in order to get to the content. It looks nice in Firefox, but not in browsers that a lot of people use, especially the kinds of people who want to use OpenBSD. For those people who use lynx, www.openbsd.org is a frustrating challenge to navigate. Similarly for the blind who use a text reader to read them the content on the web page, lists are not identified as such in the code, and therefore someone using an alternative way of getting information from the web can't find what they're looking for without a lot of frustration. Saying that it works for me OK right now is simply not good enough. > I fully agree. When that happens, action will be taken by someone who > decides it is "then" a priority. Well, I believe that fixing it right the first time will save you some panic and further problems in the future. The idea has been mentioned in this thread that it's too difficult to make websites work in multiple browsers and still be valid. That idea is simply incorrect. Here's an example. http://www.cerealport.com/?p=8 I believe that fixing it now will get the content of openbsd.org, which is superb, into the minds of everyone who is looking for it, now and in the future. - Jeremy
