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Posted by Chaddy2222 on 06/10/06 14:12
Ed Mulroy wrote:
> > ... tables are still the wrong choice for your purposes ...
>
> I still do not understand why that is.
>
> > ... But you will gain support for 'text-only, cell phone, PDA or
> > blind-viewer browsers' ...
>
> I thought that supporting them was pointless. Pages
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As a blind webmaster, although I only do web design as a hobby, you
would be very surprised in what we are interested in.
As an example here in some states of Australia, it may be nation wide
but I am not sure, their are some blind golfers. I believe they also
have some compertisions at a few of the Victorian golf clubs, but I
have never had much of an interest in golf so I don't know the finer
details.
But, I also know of a lot of blind people who do enjoy a lot of other
activities, such as boating.
You can accomidate those of us useing screenreading software and sited
users with images disabled by useing appropreate alt text read more
here, http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/design-tips2.html
>
> > ...One method is to make the sidebar 'float: left' ...
>
> > and give the content area a margin-left which is equal
> > or larger than the width of the sidebar...
Yes, I thaught that might work. I believe I also made mention of it.
>
> Unfortunately the float:left scheme does not properly present. When someone
> narrows the window, one column drops to below the other instead of a
> horizontal scroll bar appearing. I have not found anything in CSS which
> when the screen is narrowed will put in a horizontal scroll bar instead of
> hiding half of the page below the bottom of the screen.
>
> > ... with a certain width preferably in em ..
>
> I think the pages you looked at dimension in percent but on the other pages
> the sidebars are dimensioned in ex. You and everyone else these days seem
> to speak of em and not of ex. Please tell me if I am wrong to use ex
> instead of em.
You would be wrong to use that for font sizeing as IE users can't
re-size the text very easyly.
By the way, you really should not be to fussed if something does not
look quite right, their is no way that your pages will render
identically in every single browser on the planet, the only way this
could happen is if they all implermented the W3C standards in the exact
same way. Which will not happen for a while, if ever.
>
> > ... the use of CLASS attributes can be heavily reduced by a
> > more clever use ofCSS selectors.
>
> Thank you. I had the intention of doing that that. There are about 93
> files on the site and each would need to be edited. I have been
> procrastinating.
>
> I am an engineer, literally someone with a pocket protector and, at least in
> the past, a slide rule. While I may be a bit creative with respect to
> things like bandwidth, response time and fringing capacitance I have little
> if any creativity of the sort needed to be a graphic designer. My web site
> is admittedly uninspired. I welcome any comments and greatly appreciate
> your suggestions.
>
> . Ed
Look, if you use that many nested tables, then clearly you don't know
as much about concerving bandwidth.
Also, I know some of my spelling might not be that flash, but it's
better then your TOTAL DISREGARD FOR WEB ACCESSIBILITY!!!.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc
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