RE: format changes in different browsers

[Matt Sergeant <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:

> 
> > The second way, and by far the most sensible in the long run 
> > is to buy a
> > good book on HTML like O'Reilly's "Dynamic HTML - The Definitive
> > Reference" and tweak your pages to work right on all 
> > browsers. It can be
> > done - took me a couple of hours to get my axkit pages right, but they
> > look good on all platforms at all resolutions now. And even 
> > render fairly
> > OK in lynx (text based browser).
> 
> I have used the Bobby HTML validator (http://www.cast.org/bobby/) to
> ensure that my pages are technically as good as they can be, both in
> terms of browser independance and HTML conformance, but also in terms
> of ensuring that as many can access the pages as possible.

Sadly "bobby" also asks far too many questions on things you have fixed -
like asking if you've got alt tags on images (I do) even when the alt tag
exists and is blank (like on separator 1x1 gifs). I'm guessing maybe its
just a naive implementation, or perhaps bobby hates 1x1 gifs ;-)

A better validator service IMHO (although much more resource
intensive) would be one which runs old versions of netscape on your page
and returns you with a screenshot :) (I'm just kidding about this - I
don't honestly expect someone to offer this service - luckily with Unix
you _can_ run older browsers without re-installing your operating system).

-- 
<Matt/>

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