Re: [MACCAWS] Software Tests - sets of standards and ALT tags

On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 10:13 PM, Tony Crockford wrote:

> There's no point making a case for the latest standard if the 
> commercial
> situation under consideration, e.g. target audience unable to use the
> more standards compliant browsers, means that it is commercially
> unviable.

With the exception of some rather advanced scripting in IE/Win,
marginwidth/height and a couple of attributes regarding tables (height,
percentage widths on cells, etc.), this is a non-issue. There are some
things that are easier with non-valid attributes if you must make 
the page
look 'the same' in NN4.x, but very little in the standards that would
'break' in NN4.x or any other browser that I am aware of.

The exception here being certain form elements contained in a 
styled <div>
in NN4.x (<label>, <legend>, <fieldset>, et al; there's a list 
here: <http://www.macedition.com/cb/nn4crashers/>).

The solution is simple: leave those elements out if you must have the
styling, and accept a lower level of compliance with accessibility
guidelines. The code can still be perfectly valid.


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