Re: Another W3C strict query

At 03:37 AM 5/24/02, Hilma wrote:
[ . . .]
>But device specific.... so is any html page, is it not?!
[ . . .]

Exactly right - only completely backwards.

*Properly written* HTML works on ANY combination of browser/OS capable of connecting to the WWW - by design.

A couple of "old" facts seem appropriate to pass along here:

1) HTML is a markup language ~ not a page layout language.
        When you start trying to use it to control the presentation layout beyond very basic levels you start running into trouble. Well, more appropriately, your VIEWERS start running into trouble.

2) Allllllll those errors one gets when trying to validate to strict? Those are allllll errors relating to *presentation* (page layout) I'll just bet.

The move is on to strictly separate content from presentation. 4.x (strict) is the first DTD to actually push us that way. XML,XHTML are the next step. Take a look at those two (XML specifically) and you'll see what I mean.

Now, please do not suffer under the impression I'm ' reading you the riot act ', I'm not. There are a whole bunch of folks that either simply don't know this stuff, or have foolishly believed the advertising on the WYSIWYG editor boxes at CompUSA/Best Buy . . whatever.

My most constructive suggestion would be to *carefully* research your intended viewer demographics before you ever start drafting the site and make the decision what "level" to code at, based on that research.

HTH,
Fuzzy.

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