Broadly Accessible (was Re: Table problem

At 10:07 AM 5/16/2001 +0200, Jakob D=F6lling wrote:
>Thanks. BTW: My client wants me to have website that is as broadly as
>possible accessible. What happens if a user who has a browser of a older
>generation is visiting his website?

Jakob,

You're going to have to define that one.

You can use older DTDs which the Cap'n will recommend, but even more=20
current DTDs, such as XHTML /should/ still make the pages accessible and=20
usable if you do it right.

It just depends on what's more important to the customer and what features=
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s/he needs. Remember the ruckus over http://www.alistapart.com/ going to=20
XHTML 1.0 Strict and using CSS positioning? It looked awful in NN 4+, but,=
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IIRC, the site still worked. It's been awhile since I went there, but it=20
did work.

That's a drastic example, but I'm sure they, too, considered their audience=
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and decided to go with the latest and greatest anyway.

FWIW,
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