Posted by tonnie on 03/08/07 17:49

Harlan Messinger schreef:
> Paul B wrote:
>> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:17:34 +1100, dorayme
>> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <or9vu29ljthft64m2kosb1mjn89ptjnbnr@4ax.com>,
>>> Paul B <customerservices@houstoncrafts.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:52:19 GMT, Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The new site's pages are all done in plain transitional HTML (with
>>>>> validation errors, of course),
>>>> Why of course ?
>>>> I use transitional HTML and I don't have validation errors.
>>> Sure, it is not a necessary connection and you are the proof that it
>>> is not.
>>
>>
>>> But generally, to make a site from scratch today with transitional
>>> either suggests a lack of experience or confidence or a special rare
>>> good reason.
>>
>> My site was made 3 years ago. Self taught and over 6000 pages. It is
>> used a lot by schools etc, which don't always have the latest browser
>> etc. I've no need to have it as strict, php, cms or any other fancy
>> new idea.
>> It works, why break it ?
>> At least my site will carry on working - THAT'S what matters.
>
> It will? How do you know? If you'd had pages with LAYER tags back when,
> and they'd worked just fine in Netscape 4, and you made the same
> comment, you'd have been sorry.

He made his site in Transitional for crying out loud. Not in some
Chinese obscure dialect.

All the modern browsers support it and will for years to come. So why
bitch about it?

Or are you going to rebuild his entire site out of 6000 pages for him?

No you aren't.


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