Posted by Barbara de Zoete on 10/07/03 11:41

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:45:37 +0100, David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Barbara de Zoete wrote:
>
>>> Additionally, they will be displayed if the user doesn't have CSS
>>> available and turned on.
>>
>> Which happens, how often?
>
> CSS support is quite often lacking on hand held devices.

Ah, see. I don't aim for handhelds. I mean, I don't have any content
meaningful to someone 'on the road'. My pages are way too long for
comfortable reading in those tiny things too. That's why a handheld is
almost never on my mind when authoring. And that's also why I refered to
graphical browsers with CSS. You put it in a different context. Worth your
while thinking off, mind you. But different. I don't think my site is read
with a handheld ever, or close to never at least.

> Besides - bad markup is still bad markup

Hang on. What makes you say that? I don't see any bad markup. There is no
bad markup involved. You, dear Sir Dorward, may have some (sometimes
strong) opinions on this matter, but that doesn't make your opinions
_the_ultimate_truth_.

>>> Precaching is best done with JavaScript.
>
>> If javascript is nog switched on?
>
> Then the images will be loaded on demand. Precaching is usually used to
> prepare the browser to display images that will be switched in using
> JavaScript anyway.

Not necessarily, no. As I indicated in a previous post, one can use the
preloaded images to create hover effects in menu's and such. And as I see
that, there is no eason what so ever to use javascript for that. A bit of
css will do that for you just fine. And as far as I'm concerned, css does
that better, than javascript does.

All in my opinion of course :-)

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