[thelist] accessibility: suggestions/recommendations for commercial site and coding standard

Chris W. Parker cparker at swatgear.com
Fri May 31 14:51:01 CDT 2002


hi.

i can understand using XHTML/CSS (no tables, etc., validation) on a
personal site seeing as how the person making the site might not care
whether or not it works for everyone. or for that matter looks good in
every viewers browser.

but i'm working on a commercial site right now and it currently doesn't
use any doctype or validation or any sort of standard for that matter
(it hasn't gone live yet.) the problem is that i've taken the homepage
and recoded a test version that validates in HTML 4.01. now although it
looks fine in ie6, mozilla 1, ns6 and opera 6, it looks like shit in
ns4.x. the old version of the homepage that didn't adhere to any
standards and used a crappy css file looks better than the "new and
improved" experimental page.

so, what would you people suggest i do? it's not really viable to go
back and redesign the site to better fit the standards, so i need to
either keep it the old way, or... or i don't know what.


thanks,
chris.



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