From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,61983e5ee34cd0a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-26 13:16:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!amsnews01.chello.com!Flipper.POSTED!not-for-mail Reply-To: "CodeMage" From: "CodeMage" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3D9236F0.6DE14A70@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <3D928BE8.3030708@telepath.com> <1TBk9.1131510$oa7.38447818@Flipper> <87wup9j6bx.fsf@inf.enst.fr> Subject: Re: [ARTICLE] Introducing the Ada programming language Organization: The CodeMages Community X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:16:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.187.5.129 X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.nl X-Trace: Flipper 1033071390 212.187.5.129 (Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:16:30 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:16:30 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29362 Date: 2002-09-26T20:16:30+00:00 List-Id: "Samuel Tardieu" wrote in message news:87wup9j6bx.fsf@inf.enst.fr... > >>>>> "codemage" == codemage writes: > > codemage> If you use cascading stylesheets, somebody will not be able > codemage> to view your site. > > What do you mean? Unless a browser is plain buggy and thinks it can > interpret CSS while it can't, any conforming browser should be able to > see a site using only HTML + CSS (in the worst case, CSS will be > ignored). Let me rephrase that: "If you use CSS, somebody will not be able to view your site the way it was intended." Just like using JavaScript or browser-dependent HTML tags: your site may look the way it was intended on 90% of the browsers used worldwide, but the remaining 10% might have JavaScript disabled or some other essential feature is missing from their configuration. Therefore, to increase the number of potential visitors who can view your site content correctly (the way that you intended) you need to decrease the amount of "fancy features". By the way, "conforming browser" is a contradictio in terminis :) You wouldn't believe the number of different browsers out there... it is for a good reason that web designers don't try to get the 100% compatibility and accessibility anymore: there's just too many different browsers conforming to as many different standards. CodeMage