RE: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-08 Thread Mike Pepper
Andrew Krespanis wrote: "OOPS! I just swore on listSORRY :)" --- LOL. First time a long while I've actually gotten a laugh from this list. Cheers, Mike Pepper Accessible Web Developer Internet SEO and Marketing Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.visidigm.com Administrator Guild of Acce

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Krespanis
OOPS! I just swore on list SORRY :) http://leftjustified.net/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Krespanis
> Well I suggest you name names and show examples of compliant html 4.01 that > doesn't show 100% of the intented content and doesn't at least resemble like > what you intented. Compliant html pages styled completely with CSS displaying bugs? Easy, I would make some examples for you now if I wasn't

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-08 Thread Andy
On Tue February 8 2005 09:22, Andrew Krespanis wrote: > What kind of make believe web do you design for? Every day I deal with > horribly incorrect (according to spec) rendering across all but the > latest of browsers -- and before you respond, I can assure you the > code in question is clean as dr

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Krespanis
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:06:21 +0100, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your code is compliant then just about every browser out there will be > able to generate > it with a 90% accuracy regarding design and 100% accuracy regarding content. What kind of make believe web do you design for? Ever

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-07 Thread Andy
Hi Altough others may use other standards, I for one don't care all that much about browser percentage. HTML 4 exists more then 10 years now and users with browsers that don't understand HTML 4 can't be all that interested in your site anyway. So with this in mind, I set my doctype to 4.01 tra

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-07 Thread heretic
> This is more of a general standards question, but if you are designing a > page for the public in general (in my case a university) at what point ( > % wise _or_ # of browsers) do you say 'Okay this is the site, no more > trying to accommodate obscure browsers/older versions of browsers." ? I > k

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-07 Thread Lea de Groot
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:03:30 -0330, Paul wrote: > This is more of a general standards question, but if you are designing a > page for the public in general (in my case a university) at what point ( > % wise _or_ # of browsers) do you say 'Okay this is the site, no more > trying to accommodate obscu

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-07 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:57:06 +0800, Bert Doorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Really depends on the audience, the client, etc but I usually draw the line at "5th generation" browsers (MSIE5+, Opera 5+, Netscape 6/7, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, etc) You can totally ignore Opera 5 and 6. 92% of Opera u

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Paul wrote: This is more of a general standards question, but if you are designing a page for the public in general (in my case a university) at what point ( % wise _or_ # of browsers) do you say 'Okay this is the site, no more trying to accommodate obscure browsers/older versions of browsers."

Re: [WSG] Browser Checks

2005-02-07 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Paul wrote: This is more of a general standards question, but if you are designing a page for the public in general (in my case a university) at what point ( % wise _or_ # of browsers) do you say 'Okay this is the site, no more trying to accommodate obscure browsers/older versions of browsers