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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kai Hendry wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 10:36:14PM +0100, Rick Timmis wrote: > >>If it works Why Fix it ? > > > Problem is Dreamweaver is broke. Macromedia is just as bad as Microsoft. I think the crux of the issue is if it isn't standard compliant it is broke, you just don't know where and when it will reveal it, like a bug in a program. You can argue well the rendering works for you on Netscape, Mozilla, and IE, on the specific versions you have tried, with the specific fonts you have installed, you might accept that as good enough, but you have no reasonable expectation it will work anywhere else, on AOL, on set top boxes, on mobile phones, on other current browsers, on things that come later, on browsers for the visually impaired, on older browsers. It IS bust on Mozilla 1.2.1 on Linux, and the Lynx rendering has no hyperlinks links at all and no contact details, so I haven't read anything linked under the menus. Nick would usually add that exclusion of the visually impaired may also be a legal issue, but I think this is a side isse, the RNIB are more interested in getting co-operation through education than legal remedies. Not that I'm one to throw the first stone as far as web site design is concerned. I have a mate in Norwich with years in graphic design and type setting who can make them pretty but broke, I prefer correct but ugly. The way to go for most businesses are tools that produce pretty and correct websites from contributed text and images, source news from 3rd party sources, etc. Although tools that produce correct markup are the exception in my experience. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+skXFGFXfHI9FVgYRArNkAKCLOjDwShJ05dSTK2vj8PnGK/nKAwCfXveT 10bo5BClov8P4kwCBAQ7hSs= =nvhX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.