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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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