RE: Solution - A Perfect Web Site!

Hi:

Code validation and testing on various web clients are both valid ways to
help development along. Perhaps I missed the original poster's point, but
the fact that this thread has degenerated into insults is a sure sign that
it's dead. Please save the insults for personal correspondence.

- Jeff

Jeff Rankin
jrankin(at)oneil.com
User Interface & Web technologies
O'Neil & Associates, Inc.
www.oneil.com
937.461.1602 x 3504

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-style(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-style(at)hwg.org]On Behalf
> Of andy dunbar
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 7:23 AM
> To: Sathish C. Bramhan; David R. Longnecker
> Cc: HWG Techniques; HWG Style
> Subject: RE: Solution - A Perfect Web Site!
>
>
> sorry mate, if anyone's talking crap its you
>
> if you work on sites as big as you say and you use
> validators to test then I'm sorry but I'd class you as
> a rank amateur.
>
> I work on sites ten times (if not more) bigger than
> those you work on and I set up environments to test on
> - eg IE on Pc, Netscape on PC, to cover around 90% of
> the prospective audience.
>
> a perfect website to me is one which matches perfectly
> the clients needs - ie the prospective audience gets
> the best viewing experience possible, and this
> audience is targeted via browser, os and platform
> support as best as is possible within the development
> budget. I personally would not class developing for
> each variant of the netscape DOM as a worthwhile use
> for a clients budget. Many of the sites I produce are
> IE only or support 90% of the browser audience, based
> on the most reliable demographics I can find.
>
> so to hear from someone who clearly thinks of
> themselves as 'web design elite' and then tells me
> they use a validator not a proper testing platform is,
> to be frank, amusing to say the least
>
> @ndy Dunbar
>
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