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Posted by Joel Shepherd on 02/17/07 17:26
John Hosking <John@DELETE.Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote:
> There is no good reason for anybody (including yourself) to expect that
> you can publish to the WWW (a largely graphical space based on data
> access enabled by the electronic transmission of said data) without a
> graphical browser and electronic transmission capability.
Huh? What on earth prevents one from writing and publishing a plain ol'
HTML document, with text content and simple, non-graphical markup, to
the Web, with a plain ol' dial-up connection? Sure, you're not going to
build another Amazon that way, and no one is going to give your site a
reward for prettiness, but so what. You can still publish useful content
in an accessible way.
> People can (and do) argue about specific lists all the time, but if you
> can't or won't test in *at least* IE6 and a version of Firefox, you
> shouldn't bother publishing.
Exactly what is there to "test" with <p>, <h1>, <strong> and the like?
You don't need a graphical browser to "test" a basic page with textual
content; and there's absolutely nothing prohibiting one from publishing
such a page. Depending on the content, such a page could be far more
useful and information-rich than most of the ad-, flash-, ajax- and
image-laden crap swirling around out there.
--
Joel.
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