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Tuesday, January 15th, 2002 at 10:51 AM | 1 commentCodeBitch goes on a 2001 : A Browser Odyssey and Shirley, as a member of the WaSP steering, comments and argues several points along with adding a touch of Web standards information. I agree with Shirley’s counterpoints, not as a friend, but rather as a respected colleague who is knowledgeable about browsers and standards. Thanks for helping carrying the standards torch, Shirley.
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Thanks for your comments on my article. Shirley and I have discussed this by email and I think it’s fair to say that we don’t actually disagree about blandness in noncompliant browsers.
You can design sites that still look good in Netscape 4 or OmniWeb 4.0, but there are many standards-compliant designs (including MacEdition’s) that just won’t work. Netscape hits a crashing but in versions 4.0-4.07, which I’ve documented on the site, and OmniWeb 4.0 doesn’t do background colors on anything but BODY and tables. So dark body - light DIV - dark text is illegible in OmniWeb. So there will be exceptions where a slightly different look will result in noncompliant browsers, but in general Shirley is right.
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