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Posted by Neredbojias on 09/04/07 08:29
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:21:16
GMT Jukka K. Korpela scribed:
> Scripsit Neredbojias:
>
>> Realistically, css is about as optional as the paint on a car.
>
> Rather, the color(s) of the paint.
>
>> Anybody who turns css off is a nitwit.
>
> So you are saying - though you probably didn't mean to say - that a
> visually impaired person who can use web pages only when font size is
> very large and text appears in a simple font, black on white, is a
> nitwit if he uses the web.
>
> You are also saying that I am a nitwit when I turn CSS off to test how
> a page works without it (as required by W3C and other
> recommendations), or to be able to read a page at all because it has a
> mass of broken CSS that does not work on standards-conforming
> browsers, or to switch off the 18pt bold font or 9px font for copy
> text.
>
> Being an experienced alt.html'er, you will now how have to write down
> _200_ times "CSS is for optional presentational suggestions, and I
> will learn Finnish just to read Yucca's books on web design and on CSS
> to really understand this".
Naturally there are exceptions. Water is required to survive, but not
too many people are going to drink from a lake with green slime on it.
My comment was directed at the prevailing habit of the overall majority
whether or not to enable css, and I think it is evident they would be
foolish not to. Testing, compensating for inept web pages, and
instituting provisions for personal physical challenges hardly invalidate
the principle.
I understand current wisdom _suggests_ that css is optional, but
pragmatically, it just isn't. We are within the medieval ages of html
evolution. Eventually the renaissance will come when persons analogous
to Galileo, Copernicus, and others with a brain will lift us all out of
the great Darkness and whoosh us into the light of a simpler html where
most of the average, general public might learn how to make a webpage
without the illogicalities and inconsistencies that plague mankind today.
Btw, I'm Swedish so learning Finnish might be heretical to my heritage.
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Neredbojias
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.
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