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". Cheers, Jeremy Henty (who used to be a webmaster)