On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 08:25:51PM +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote:
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:14:38AM -0700, TBlittlefoot wrote:
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:36:57AM -0700, Kelson Vibber wrote:
If I were to guess, they're probably using HTML for the background and CSS for the text, or possibly doing something nonstandard like putting <font color="white"> at the beginning of the page instead of inside each block element. So the site is either badly designed (relying on two separate technologies instead of one for something as critical as readability) or badly coded (using code that happened to work in Netscape 2 and IE, but fails in a stricter rendering engine).
Good, Kelson. I'll send this thread to the webmaster there.
Please be tactful about doing this. You don't want to come across as saying "Your web site breaks in some bizarre web browser you've never heard of. It's probably because you're incompetent". It's possible the site designer has no interest in browsers that don't support CSS and doesn't want to be bothered by people who use them. It's possible they *know* the coding sucks but are tied to a framework that generates sucky code and are sick and tired of well-meaning bug reports that they can do nothing about. It's possible they won't know what on earth you're talking about. At the very least it would be considerate to examine the HTML first so you can give some details rather than a vague "Your web site's broke".
Good advice, Jeremy. I'll be polite and much more general: Myself and a lot of other folks are really tired of all the pointless (in terms of substance) and bandwidth-consuming requisites of a lot of websites these days, where the (erroneous) assumption that we all use the latest version of MSIE seems to reign. A lot of us don't even use Windows and have no intention of getting a high-speed connection to the Internet. We don't do sound or java or cookies or plugins or video. On my perfectly functional and RFC-compliant graphical browser, your page displays as mostly blank. It turns out that the printing is white on white... So I use my textmode browser to view it. Have a nice day. No, Bill Gates and his minions do not run my computer, and if you are going to let him run your website, then it is going to look like garbage on my browser and I'll look for another site where the webmaster has thrown off the yoke of the Dark Lord Gates --- Three OS's from corporate kings in their towers of glass, Seven from valley lords where orchards used to grow, Nine from dotcoms doomed to die, One from the Dark Lord Gates on his dark throne In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie. One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie. ----------------- :-) Might have gotten a little carried away there! I'm a webmaster, too, Jeremy. I follow the printable standard: What you see with your browser is what you'll see on paper if you print out the webpage. Tom