WLS wrote: > MCBastos wrote: >> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >>> Web authors who do not test their pages with various browser-induced >>> font sizes are rampant on the WWW. Little do they know that "the >>> web is not paper." :-) It's a losing battle... >> >> There's also those web authors who don't bother testing in anything >> other than their own browser. For a very long time, this usually >> meant they tested on Internet Explorer, and that's it. Since the >> site was written for the quirks (read: bugs) of a particular >> browser, in a particular configuration, it tended to break horribly >> if you changed browsers, font sizes, even *window size.* >> >> Unfortunately, there are still LOTS of sites written during those >> Dark Ages still around. And quite a few clueless souls still >> adhering to their old, obsolete practices. > > And they are starting to use the HTML5 Doctype, then creating > pages/sites with no HTML5 elements, improper meta tags. etc. > > Getting worse, not better.
Yes, it is. 5 has a place, but only for certain situations. All my web sites are still HTML 4.01 Strict, they validate, and look/work the same in just about any browser you can find. Doesn't matter what your default text size is, either. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
