Re: first initial letter as a gif-picture

At 09:27 AM 3/2/01 , Bryan Gillispie wrote:
>You really should include the ALT property of the <IMG> tag for blind users,
>people that browse the internet with images turned off, or for people who
>use text based browsers. This will show a plain letter 'D' for the above
>users, I am not for sure what impact it would have on your searches.

Now wait a minute !!

Don't you think the users mentioned above constitute LESS than the number
of people using older browsers (say, version 3.X and below)?

YEA !!!! Is the answer to that.

>From the arguments presented on this VERY LIST those users should be
ignored !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woops. All of a sudden that doesn't make much sense does it?

You look at any numbers you like. I'll bet my two typing fingers (BOTH of
them!) that there are more folks using 3.X and below browsers than there
are using screen readers and surfing with images turned off.

Wow. Suddenly TWO faces on the same side of the coin!!! 

NOT aimed at you directly Bryan !! Seriously !!! PLEASE do not take this
message as a personal affront to you!! But you provided and EXCELLENT
example of why this whole deal over using transitional DTD's despite
knowing viewers can not see the stuff correctly is so DUMB (obviously - in
my opinion!).

It's cool to cater to a TINY user group, but not worth the effort to expose
your customers sites to a lot more potential BUYERS by writing validated
NON transitional HTML???????

Now ~that~ sends my tiny mind reeling!
Fuzzy.
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