[thelist] RE: The need for IE-only sites?
Diane Soini
dianesoini at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 8 20:57:00 CDT 2004
1. Some folks may not feel a need to adhere to accessibility
requirements, such as Section 508, but almost nobody with a commercial
website can claim they have no disabled users. Our most coveted visitor
is exactly that: blind, deaf, javascript disabled, and unable to click
a mouse. That would be Google. So it helps everyone to practice a
little bit of the accessibility requirements, and lean, clean code is a
plus to that user, too. Or don't do it. I like my search engine
rankings.
2. I'm relatively new to the web universe. For the longest time I
thought the web was just usenet groups and email. I didn't know there
was more than that until 1998. I can write tag soup ok, but actually,
I'm horribly ignorant about how to do a lot of it. I mean, when I sit
down to write code what's in my brain are descendent selectors, the
DOM, the box model and all that stuff. It never occurs to me to write
<div id="blahblah" class="blahblah" style="blahblah"><span
style="blahblah"><font
class="blahblah"><b>Heading</b></font></span></div><br>, and I do not
know why anybody would ever write that. I don't know how to make web
sites look and behave the same in all the browser-war era browsers, and
I feel ashamed, slightly lesser. But that's what I'm supposed to do
when writing for our corporate web site. I don't do it, of course.
3. Which leads me to my third point. I appreciated some of the comments
yesterday and today, and decided I should look at it another way. I
make a lot of little one-off web pages where I do the design, layout,
html and javascript. I write those in as standards-compliant,
accessible a manner as I am able (without being too bleeding edge so my
co-workers won't freak out.) I can take pride and comfort in that. I
can also take pride in the fact that I've given two presentations at
work now about how to use CSS the real way (not the tag soup way) and
people, when they've "gotten it", get this light in their eyes like
"Now I get it! This is so powerful!"
Gotta see this as a process.
Diane
On Thursday, July 8, 2004, at 09:59 AM, thelist-request at lists.evolt.org
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> Re: [thelist] RE: The need for IE-only sites?
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