RE: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/

[Drake, Ted C.]

I found the site fairly nice. I thought there was a nice use of white space.  There looks like a stray < in the headlines. I was surprised by the use of <small> tags. Were those deprecated or are they viable? The orange headlines on orange background is a bit low contrast. I like the blue center channel. My attention went to it quickly. I also noticed an <a name=""></a> next to a header with an id. I'm assuming it is just some legacy code.   I think the number of nested divs could be reduced to clean up the code, but otherwise I think it is a valiant effort.   Ted     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Menzel Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 4:35 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] New front page for http://abc.net.au/   For some reason - the layout is quite different between IE and Firefox.   The Firefox layout seems to be 1024x768 based.  The IE one seems to be based on an 800 width.  This impacts the IE experience by providing missing or cropped images instead of the full ones (again part of the design) and layout of the Radio, Television, Broadband is not as appealing on the IE version.  And there are actually different articles being displayed below that (even after a refresh of both browsers).   I dont understand why this would need to be done like this unless there was some non-agnostic browser policy at work.   And you know people - if it's the Government they like to manufacture conspiracies.   However, as far as "standards" are concerned.  All DIV/UL based - not a table in sight.  This is good.  But most of the links on the page dont have a "title" attribute.  This would potentially score low marks for accessibility.     Regards, Gary Menzel   On 8/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been waiting for one of the Australian members of the mailing list to comment on the new look/code for http://abc.net.au/ so I might as well raise the issue myself. I personally had nothing to do with the design, code or any other aspect of it (apart from being involved in a very broad consultative process), but I'd be interested in a WSG perspective. ------------------------------------------------------------                "Have You Validated Your Code?" John Horner                            (+612 / 02) 8333 3488 Developer, ABC Kids Online            http://www.abc.net.au/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ****************************************************** The discussion list for  http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************