On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:22:22PM +0200, Dietmar Knoll wrote:
> > Well, believe it or not but the majority of the web sites around are > > designed to work with "Win-crap" browsers. > Designing a webpage for a certain browser is the wrong way to start. Tell that to 99% of the web"masters" in the world. > > HTML is all but well designed. > Where? On a lot of places. Try to find out what happens if you specify a table WIDTH="200%" for example. > If you have suggestions hand them over to the w3c for inclusion in the > specs. It's too late. Browsers already defined the standard themselves (aka MSIE defined the standard) and websites all over the world already started using them. > > Strictly following the w3c HTML specs doesn't work because they leave > > room for different interpretations. > Where? See above. There are others, like the <IMG><IMG> vs <IMG> <IMG>. Where it's unsure if the first one must be vertically layouted. I think it shouldn't but MSIE does, so websites do expect it. > And what is wrong with room for interpretation? It gives different result for the layout of the page depending on what browser you use. > Take this room (layout) and let the client user do their > interpretation. Then the user complains because the site looks weird or is unuseable. -- David Gerber VaporWare programmer http://www.vapor.com/ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________________ Voyager Mailing List - http://v3.vapor.com/ Voyager FAQ....: http://faq.vapor.com/voyager/ Listserver Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=HELP Unsubscribe....: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=UNSUBSCRIBE
