Sylvia, I am sticking with HTML 3.2 too, as long as possible. A good
validator is at
if it is still there.
David
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Sylvia Caldwell Rankin wrote:
Actually, this problem that everyone has been writing about is
multi-faceted. It involves the age of the equipment (system and monitor),
video card (and amount of video memory), screen resolutions, software (which
generation of browser they are using), available memory (some systems cannot
support the current generation of browsers), and HTML editing.
Since there are people viewing these Rootsweb sites from all countries
(Europe uses the browser called Opera, which is VERY different) and with
equipment/software, behind firewalls, and at the lowest and highest possible
screen resolutions---perhaps we should consider writing HTML at the lowest
possible level.
I set some fairly rigid guidelines for my research site...
Write in HTML v3.2
No sound waves, no Javascript effects, no frames, no frills, no specialty
fonts, no mega-big images that don't do anything for the customer, no
proprietary tags (FrontPage is world's worse for inserting proprietary
tags). Just 'roundtrip HTML'.
Preview the work in 3rd and 4th generation browsers, as well as Opera.
Write for the 640x480 screen, so pages do not have to be scrolled
horizontally as well as vertically.
I do this professionally, so I may have more resources available to me than
an amateur editor. But there are excellent resources available online,
including free site validators that will tell you where the problems are
with your HTML and offer fixes.
JoeExpert is a good site
http://www.joeexpert.com/
So is NetMechanic
http://www.netmechanic.com/
Sylvia Rankin
www.StudioSR.com
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