Kornel Lesinski wrote:
> Pretty does not mean accessible.

OK, I should have said "look good and functional" ;-)
For example, when DIVs overlap, links become unclickable, content disappear.
etc.

> I think it's better to spend time on
> some WAI checkpoints rather than adding display tweaks for NN4 and
> alike.

I try to do both.

> If your HTML is well-written, it should be pretty accessible without
> stylesheets or scripting, and you could spend your time on something
> more useful.

If the HTML/CSS is well written a document can "look good/be functional" in
many browsers too.
For example, why is it so complicated for some people to have a decent
layout in IE5/Win? Because of its broken box model or because of the
designer's skills?

BTW, I think serving no style sheet to NN4 is one thing, but letting v.5
browsers feed on styles that "break them" is another story.

> I'd absolutely drop NN4. If it still has any users alive, they should
> be used to that sites are unstyled/broken in it.
> NN6 is rather experimental/broken and I can't even find a trace of it
> in webstats I use (ranking.pl).

My reply to the OP was to tell him how I do it, not to tell people what they
should do ;-)

> Opera users upgrade so quickly that Opera 6 now has few times smaller
> userbase than IE4. It's really marginal - I guess most of them are
> mobile phones users, and only Opera 7+ has option for testing
> handheld styles...

I agree...

> Check Gecko versions in NN7/Firebird and Mozilla/Firefox you use -
> probably they use (almost) the same engines, so you don't have to use
> them all for testing.

You're right, but it feels so good when you open a document in 4 or 5
different browsers in a row and it looks the *same* :-)

I don't [try to] build layouts with strong browser support because I "have
too", I just do it for the challenge. And there is no time wasted because
that's the way I learn...

Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com

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