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Re: [LUG] [pohanlon@cornwall.gov.uk: Cornwall County Council Website]
Kai Hendry wrote:
That is not true. There is no need for hacks with the current browsers
available. Check out the designs out on www.oswd.org. Some of them may
look good to you, and many are build correctly conforming to even the
strictest forms of html standards.
While what you say is perfectly valid, I would beg to differ on the
point that it is entirely possible to write XHTML 1.0 Strict that
conforms entirely with the W3 validator and yet is not usable in all
browsers (this comment to be considered outside of the `what is html for
anyway?' argument).
As such, most of the time you *do* have to adapt your compliant markup
to take into account browser weaknesses, the most common problems
attached it would seem to the still ubiquitous Netscape 4.x. Now, the
resulting markup may, and indeed should, be valid also but you will have
applied some hacks to it to get the desired results.
A web authoring framework that enforced standards while being aware of
the shortcomings of implementations is desirable, but sadly no such
thing exists. It would have to be pretty, also: try getting a
Media-Lab Arts graduate to switch from Dreamweaver to Amaya and watch
them wretch!
Fortunately, of course, we are in the privileged position of observing
the web in its infancy; years from now these issues will be nothing more
than a fond memory recalled over a couple of 0.5683 litre beer portions.
MB
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