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Posted by dorayme on 02/25/07 01:31
In article <ai5Eh.32419$6L3.20882@newsfe08.phx>,
"Thad" <tsobota@cox.net> wrote:
> "dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:doraymeRidThis-897D1B.10340625022007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> > In article <Go3Eh.46264$1H5.37703@newsfe16.phx>,
> > "Thad" <tsobota@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I guess what I'm trying to ask is... what is the best way to write html
> >> pages to avoid browser incompatibilities without always having to do
> >> browser
> >> type checking?
> >>
> >
> > Wow! You sure fooled me then. What you said had no relation in
> > the words you used to anything on this subject. I hope it is not
> > going to go on like this? btw... please don't top post.
> >
> > Perhaps you best start at:
> >
> > http://www.htmldog.com/
> >
> > Read as much as you can stand from
> >
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/>
> >
> > and keep referring to it.
> >
> > Go to your library or bookshop and read:
> >
> > "Cascading Style Sheets" by Hakon Wium & Bert Bos
> >
>
> No, it won't go on. I have resolved myself to writing my web pages in xhtml
> strict with JavaScript and CSS. Thank you for the referrals as I will be
> looking into them, though I peeked at the web page you referred.
>
Just reconsider this resolve. A knowledgeable partner of mine
once said:
The expert advice is to use HTML 4.01, but you can of course use
technobabble-XHTML _if_ you are careful enough to follow
guidelines that effectively make it HTML 4.01 with pointless
kludges.
You could look at <http://dorward.me.uk/>
For now, simply write your html docs under
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Forget about JS till you can do without it and produce sensible
useful pages - for at least the simple reason that a non trivial
number of people have it disabled. Having reached this milestone,
you can use JS to thrill and delight and enhance. First things
first.
--
dorayme
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