[Marketing] (x)HTML standard for new site?

[Martin Burns]

On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 11:06  am, aardvark wrote:

>> From: Martin Burns <martin at easyweb.co.uk>
>>
>> I seem to be picking up a feeling that desdev are thinking about using
>> HTML4.01 for the new site:
>
> and by desdev, you mean me... since i suggested it for two key
> reasons:
>
> - we have to go clean *all* the articles looking for elements like
> <br>, <hr>, <img>, etc...

I agree, from a content perspective, manually cleaning all the live 
article would be a major pain. But Seb mentioned on #evolt that he has 
some kind of cleanup tool.

>> Now while I'm not really all *that* bothered, I can see that using
>> HTML4.01 (/me hopes to high heaven that this doesn't also mean
>> table-based layout) will lose us a lot of credibility externally.
>
> i didn't suggest table-based layout... and i agree, a lot of people
> would give us crap for it,

It's for marketing to think through how much that matters, and if it 
does, then to put the case to desdev.

> but given the reasons above, do we want a  site that *really* 
> validates, or do we want a site that can hose some browsers?

> if the argument's solid, it just becomes part of the  'behind the 
> rebuild' article...

Oh sure, no question. Just want to make sure that we know about the 
risk and consciously accept it.

Cheers
Martin
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