![]() Recent essentials you may have missed: “ Flash Player 6 & broken detection scripts” covers a problem on numerous Flash-based sites, where old browser detection scripts prevent visitors who’ve installed the Flash 6 player from viewing Flash content. The agency’s corporate site complies with XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS, and the Section 508 guidelines, and is not a bad looker. SDG, a newly launched web agency, has taken WaSP’s challenge to heart, and will offer its clients only standards-compliant work. ![]() Of late we’ve found ourselves bemusedly contemplating the abstract thoughts and equally abstract layouts of WebActivism. Includes expanding menus, a pixelated text generator, and a fix for MSIE’s automatic margin bug. Stilleye offers scripts you can download and use on your own sites. New ALA contributing writer Jeremy Wright uncorks the Pickle Jar Theory of Time Management. No charts, no grids, no five syllable words - just a simple idea that can help you get more done with less stress. In Issue 146 of A List Apart, For People Who Make Websites: Time management theories come and go, and we’re glad when most of them leave. It’s those other standards iCab still needs to work on.) Thanks, Eric. (To be fair, iCab’s has always provided superb support for HTML. Likewise, here’s a snap of in iCab 2.8, a Mac-only browser that claims to offer standards support comparable to that in IE and Opera. We can only hope that Omni Group will continue to improve its promising but problematic product. No CSS is better than incomplete and incorrect CSS. It may seem odd that a site so friendly to Palm users could prove so troublesome to a fancy-pants graphical browser like OmniWeb, but that’s how it is when browsers meet a web standard halfway. Among other woes, its left-side navigation is almost entirely hidden. OmniWeb fudges some CSS layouts without impairing usability: Waferbaby’s navigation bar explodes on impact, and ALA’s leading and borders are missing, but both sites can still be read. As screenshots prepared by Waferbaby show, the newly released OmniWeb 4.1 fares reasonably well with transitional layouts like the one used at. This may not bother you or your clients, but it will certainly distress these users. Folks who use these browsers will have inferior experiences on sites built with anything beyond HTML table layouts and 1997-era JavaScript. The bad news: even the latest versions of certain off-brand browsers deliver incorrect and incomplete support for CSS, and no support at all for the W3C DOM. “There’s nothing like viewing a modern site using a piece-meal browser on a vintage operating system.” ![]() ![]() Care of Grant Hutchinson, here’s the same site on a Newton, Apple’s long-discontinued predecessor to the Palm Pilot. (Thanks, Anil.) Again, no special version was required or built.īut wait, there’s more. Similarly: Here’s how The WaSP’s site looks in Microsoft’s PocketPC. When you design and build with standards, one document serves all. Worth noting: The Web Standards Project is built with XHTML 1.0 Strict. Porter Glendinning sent us this screen capture of as seen in his Palm Pilot. CSS: The heartbreak of small ems (17 May)įlash Player 6 & broken detection scripts (14 May)Ĭlickable “Essentials” feature requires DOM–compliant browser.
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