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Lagardo
03-18-2003, 03:41 PM
It isn't really suffcient to tweak a web-page "until it looks OK in Internet Explorer". More and more people use other browsers and the Correct Way[tm] to write web pages that display correctly on all of them involves piping the html through the validator at the W3 consortium site: http://validator.w3.org

I am mentioning this because the SoB pages are not in the least compliant with any HTML version. They look alright on my browser (Phoenix), but I have no idea whether they were supposed to look the way they look and/or whether I might be missing something somewhere and/or whether they will work with the next version of any one browser...

Mystwalker
03-18-2003, 04:38 PM
There are no problems with Opera either. So the most widespread three browsers are working. I think that's as much as someone can hope for.

Someone here using K-Meleon or KHTML?

hc_grove
03-18-2003, 06:00 PM
Originally posted by Mystwalker
There are no problems with Opera either. So the most widespread three browsers are working. I think that's as much as someone can hope for.


No, validating pages are the very least one can ask/hope for. It's really not that difficult.
And if the pages validate, they look right in any non-buggy browser.



Someone here using K-Meleon or KHTML?

I use Mozilla and Galeon and the pages look fine in both.

.Henrik

Mystwalker
03-18-2003, 07:15 PM
And if the pages validate, they look right in any non-buggy browser.

I guess it's not that hard to write a valid HTML page that won't work in every browser.
When there is no browser that can't display the site correctly, I think re-designing it to fit W3C norms is low priority, as the website is not the project itself, but decoration.

hc_grove
03-19-2003, 05:03 AM
Originally posted by Mystwalker
I guess it's not that hard to write a valid HTML page that won't work in every browser.


I've never seen a validating page that didn't work in the browsers I've used.

And if it validates and doesn't look correct i a browser, that browser is buggy pr. definition.


When there is no browser that can't display the site correctly, I think re-designing it to fit W3C norms is low priority, as the website is not the project itself, but decoration.

I agree, that it shouldn't be a priority, but I have to object that looking correct in the three most widespread browsers, "is as much as someone can hope for".

eatmadustch
03-19-2003, 12:08 PM
The page is also quite exeptable in konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon. Just tested it on all my Linux browsers :)