>My response, below, was really more about shock than anything else. I >couldn't believe that somebody would propose to take the visual design >out of things. If that were the case, I would probably stop building >websites tommorrow. In reality, it would need to be much higher than >7% to get me to stop building websites. I would just stop using CSS >first...
'Don't judge a book by its cover' was probably coined by a brilliant technician with no design sense. I think I fall somewhere in between: I do ok with markup and get by with styling (I don't claim to be a designer). But my off-the-cuff blog entry expresses my consideration of what a good skeletal design can achieve. First para http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com/enigma_log.htm. Get a good understanding of standards constructs and you can get a pretty good site up. Mike Pepper Accessible Web Developer www.seowebsitepromotion.com On 12 May 2004, at 18:04, P.H.Lauke wrote: >> Yes, but are there any really hard statistics about what the >> public is >> doing. We know roughly 7% don't use or diable javascript. But what >> about disabling styles? > > <rant type="unfocussed rambling"> > Why is that relevant? Heck, it's almost like we're going back to the > old "how many % of users still run at 800x600...lamers" > > We know it's 7% ? Do we ? Lies, statistics and lies...it always comes > down to *your* particular audience. > > Yes, we have to give up a level of control on how our pages are > presented > (if you want pixel perfect, go back to print, or use flash/PDF/etc), > but > we gain flexible delivery based on user preferences. We're not forcing > our > visual sensibilities onto users that don't want them (e.g. those > surfing > with a simple text browsers couldn't give a damn about lines and lines > of > markup relating to presentation, or stylesheets). However, that's > obviously > *not* the same as saying that we should therefore not care about > presentation > at all. > </rant> > > P > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ***************************************************** > > > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
