Re: Target browsers for web development

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Todd R. Warfel

> standards can ensure a more consistent experience across the board for
> users; that standards means they can access the same content from their
> Web browser, their PDA, or screen reader;

Perhaps a better way of putting it would be:

*If* every browser manufacturer were to follow w3c standards then
w3c-standard markup would work everywhere, fairly consistently apart from
the grey and self-contradictory areas of the specs. Unfortunately, they
don't, and a fully w3c-compliant agent has yet to emerge, and some (most?)
new non-PC devices use browsers that work better/the same with quirky html
(cf Opera small screen edition, or that hotsomething pda).

The world's most popular screen reader (Jaws) is used mainly with the worlds
most popular browser (IE). AIUI, markup is largely irrelevant in this
scenario: if it displays, it reads.

You can make w3c-valid pages that break in or crash some browsers. You can
make non-w3c-valid pages that work in all browsers. And vice versa. Point
is, writing to w3c-standards may have benefits but being more accessible,
more supported and more re-purposeable is not /automatically/ one of them.

Regards,
Matt

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