standards compliance should not be confused with WCAG conformance.
HTML is a standard WCAG is a guidance that people use as if it were a
"standard", which could easily be a standard but is effectively not
one. However, complying with WCAG confers added benefits which
standards compliance creators strive for.
On 29/11/2008, at 09:22 , Stuart Foulstone wrote:
It may validate, but valid code is just a pre-requisite to achieving
standards compliance.
On Fri, November 28, 2008 8:43 pm, Dave Hall wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 13:07 +0000, Stuart Foulstone wrote:
Blinking text is against standards in itself, so how can you do it
in a
standards compliant way?
Using the sample I posted - see below. That validates.
Cheers
Dave
On Fri, November 28, 2008 10:45 am, Dave Hall wrote:
<!-- ... -->
<head>
<style type="text/css">
/* ... */
.blink{
text-decoration: blink;
}
/* ... */
</style>
<!-- ... -->
</head>
<body>
<!-- ... -->
<span class="blink">my blinking test</span>
<!-- ... -->
</body>
instead of
<!-- ... -->
<blink>my blinking test</blink>
<!-- ... -->
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