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Posted by Bone Ur on 11/24/07 20:59
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:25:32
GMT Mika scribed:
>> It is incredible how we reply "Do this, do that," and you answer
>> "Okay, I'll do this but I don't wanna do that because it screws up
>> something else and the site _has_ been working successfully as-is for
>> over a year..."
>>
>> Fishbowl or arrogance - which is it?
>
> Logic. If the site works perfectly which it does right now on any
> decent broadband computer it was designed for, why change something
> because someone here tells us to, if it breaks the site.
>
> Remember you guys are all a minority to the general public, who don't
> know or care if the word Transitional or Strict is at the top of a
> page as long as it looks and loads right.
>
> They also don't mess around disabling JS, installing Ad Blockers, etc.
> generally speaking.
>
> Over the past year we had 5.5 million page views in IE. 0.5m in FF.
> This is why we cater for IE mostly, but the site is FF compatible
> also. And not one complaint from FF users that the doctype is not
> 100% valid as there are 12 minor inconsistencies in the code! Come
> on, the site works as designed.
>
> The only issue we do agree with is the load times can be high, however
> not by broadband, which as we say, the site is labelled as being
> designed for.
>
> What exactly else is there to complain about? We have taken on some
> valuable advice here and the site is now CSS W3C validated and a lot
> cleaner thanks to the input here.
The most efficient form of government is a dictatorship and it works very
well for a while - sometimes a long while. Does that make it right?
The biggest problem I have with your page is when you say you have to put
something (javascript, I think) _outside_ the body tags. The reason is a
flaw in Google maps or something similar. Well, that dog don't hunt.
Can't you put the j/s in the head section - where it's valid to do so?
Sure, an exception or 2 to valid markup may (rarely) be ok for a damn
good reason, but putting markup and/or j/s code in the wrong place
exceeds such leeway considerably.
Let's put it this way: does _everybody_ who employs Google Maps on one
of their pages install the markup/code outside the body tags? Somehow, I
don't think so.
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Bone Ur
Cavemen have formidable pheromones.
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