> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Sheila Thomas wrote:
...
> > I don't believe any thought was given to non-Frames users. The design
> > spec was for IE4 and up only (allowing Netscape 4 at a push).
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> What happened to a non browser-specific www? This type of
> behaviour is short-sighted and does the "web cause" no good at all.
>
> --
> Rick
Within the web standards community there is a feeling emerging that many old browsers are broken and that web sites should be
developed based on current existing standards (HTML 4.0, CSS 2.0, ECMAScript, etc).
So one could argue that it is legitimate (even desirable) to design a web site based on such standards. An informal way of
describing this could be "Designed for version 4 browsers". The danger with this terminology is that it could be used to describe a
web site which uses proprietary features supported by such browsers. However this does not have to be the case.
Brian
PS The WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines say that you should use technologies such as CSS.
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