> Peter Schoenster wrote:
> > What current standards [re HTML, res, colours etc] are people using?
We try and make sure that our pages will degrade as gracefully as
possible through as many browsers as possible. JavaScript
presents some problems, obviously, when dealing with older
versions of Netscape, but we figure it's our job to ensure that as
many people as possible can see the lovely work we do on a site :-)
One recent client had problems and we found out they were using
Netscape 2.0 (and a Danish version at that!). We figure that's
around 2% of the market at the moment, but if it's at all possible to
allow for people like this without major site compromises or such,
then it's a professional's job to do this.
We spend quite a lot of time telling clients that there aren't really
any defined standards and if they want to assume a 640 x 480 and
shoehorn it all in there using frames and tables and other things to
mimic print layout, that they should really think again about their
Web strategy. (Jakob Nielsen had some interesting things to say
about the print vs Web strategies just recently on useit.com)
As I posted earlier, I tend to avoid sites that announce they have
been optimised for a particular browser as I equate that with
indicating their contempt for professional standards, common
courtesy and marketing interests. (Usually means that the sites
have been done by an ad agency, in my experience -- pauses and
ducks for cover just in case... :-)
As regards size, I tend to go for the 800 x 600, but again it's
important to bear in mind that there's still plenty of "small fish" out
there. If I'm producing something for, say, the education market, I
tend to be much more conservative in assuming small screens,
slow connections etc.
Sensible use of graphics and appropriate sizing, placement,
handling etc is important as we can't assume everyone has 288
connections, or even 56. It's particularly important for us,
attempting to squeeze through a small pipe to the outer world (we
had the entire country's bandwidth taken up one day with an online
concert!). Fortunately for us we can place our internationally
oriented clients on our server in California (hi to anyone in Santa
Rosa!) next to mainstreet Internet, so that's less of an issue in
some respects.
So what are the rest of you doing as default?
Cheers,
Vicki Hyde
P.S. Just took a look at the HTML standards site Peter
recommended. URK! Looks like I better go away and clean things
up, so consider above remarks as prefaced with "ideally...", "we try
to..." etc :-)
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