On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Brian Kelly wrote:
| To say we shouldn't go down the CSS/PNG/SMIL/SVG/ etc. route is to
| deny services which are clearly needed by many.
| Life was clearly easier in the past when vendors (Microsoft, Borland,
| Sun or whoever) could say that version 1 of the software is no longer
| supported.
| So how do you see ourselves moved to a richer, more robust, more
| accessible Web?
The simple solution is to use style sheets partly as they were intended,
i.e. serve different pages to different browsers. That way, you can have
a more simple, plain site for, say, NS4.x, and a more 'designed' (for want
of a better term) one for IE. And your pages will continue to work
as people move from one browser to the other.
You have to accept the fact that pages simply aren't going to look
identical in different browsers. That's a hard pill for some designers to
swallow, but, hey, that's the way the web works. It's a unique medium in
that users can (theoretically) decide how they want to view it.
Kat
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