Re: Web site maintenance

In article <sehix-A5BA36.18390831052006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Hix <sehix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <user-34D06F.22014831052006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sander Tekelenburg <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

The church uses Windows; I use Mac

Churches, Windows and Macs are irrelevant. HTML is HTML.

Not everyone renders it the same.

You make it sound like you think that's a problem. It isn't. Quite the
contrary, the fact that HTML doesn't deal with presentation is one of
its biggest features. You don't *want* a site rendered the same on your
handheld as on your 23" desktop; you don't want it rendered the same on
your speaking browser as on your laptop; you don't want it rendered the
same on paper as on your braille browser; you don't want it rendered the
same for young eyes and for old eyes. All that matters is that structure
and meaning are conveyed. *How* they are conveyed is not HTML's business.

Witness a bunch of sites that render more or less reasonably only in
Internet Explorer <someVersion>.

Sure, it's possible to write lousy HTML for which only some specific
browser's ESP engine happens to guess what you meant. All that says
about HTML is that it is possible to not understand what it is.

--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/%7Etekelenb/>
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