Option Number TWO

by "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>

 Date:  Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:14:04 -0500
 To:  "Sathish C. Bramhan" <sathish(at)bramhan.net>
 Cc:  hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
 References:  advancecreations
  todo: View Thread, Original
What made you toss out option number two so quickly Sathish?

Fuzzy


At 11:27 AM 2/13/01 -0800, Sathish C. Bramhan wrote:
>
>Okay, John and others:
>
>Try this test out. Go to a graphic intensive site. View it thru Netscape 6.
>It will work. I guarantee you that, because it will not be w3c compliant.
>Now, save that page to your desk top. Add the correct "document type
>declaration" Try this: <.!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
>Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd.>
>
>Now, view it thru NN6.
>
>The entire table looks broken. That's the problem.
>
>There is two ways to solve this:
>
>1) Just join the crowd. Keep on doing things like we always did. Browsers
>cannot fight the money power. They will have to have a non-standard default,
>till WYSIWYG editors come up with automatic page building for standards.
>There's way too much of work and no people to do it. And, the companies
>won't find people to code perfect.
>
>OR
>
>2) Lets all behave like professionals and discuss these problems.
>
>
>... SATHISH
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