Re: Web design question

Leonard Blaisdell <leo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Troubled Tony <tt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > You can't
> > see what you've got pre-release until it's all coded. Then one can
> > expect to make a series of edits...how are you going to test the
> > HTML-only version at that point?
>
> I'm confused again. You use your spiffy Apache server with PHP and MySQL
> enabled and do your whole site using BBEdit to markup and code and view
> the results right on your Mac with any browsers you have. Or use another
> text editor that may or may not allow rendering that I've mentioned. OS9
> didn't offer the PHP-MySQL option, but it would perfectly render HTML
> and CSS with BBEdit. They both render according to the browser used and
> it's capability.

Ugh, I don't use PHP nor MySQL and never heard of BBEdit. I use vim.
I roll my own database files, it's easy. I code in Tcl/TK.

Although I've never bothered to write markup code so I could
extract the "HTML-only" site that is being asked for, that
would be how to do it, not to work up from HTML-only to
the DOM-capable version (JavaScript, XML). I'd strip down
from DOM to HTML using a program.

This would also let me do things such as have a non-pictures version
of the pages, but allow the luser to click to load that individual
image, something not possible in lynx since it doesn't display pictures.

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The Sanders guy doesn't want CSS without all sorts of ugly deprecated
FONT tags for the HTML-only version, I'm guessing. That will totally
gunk up the HTML source, as opposed to the elegant CSS.

It's deprecated for a reason: to get rid of it.

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I don't understant the "text-only" link at the nytimes.com. It's in
the left column, down a ways. When I click it I get a list of text-only
hyperlinks that yield the regular pages with pictures.
.

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