On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello List. > > Allow me to summarize this thread so far, as I see it: > > 1. There is no guide that gives recommendations on how a Hebrew page > should look like. At least not a well-known one. > 2. We don't seem to agree among ourselves how that should be done. (And > some of us are supposed to know something about computers and web)
The non-agreement between Haifuxers is regarding matters that are not very important. You can use whichever encoding you like (iso-8859-8-i, windows-1255, or UTF-8) with good results. The main guideline is write according to W3C specs, and use http://validator.w3.org/ to validate your pages before publishing. > Now, let's assume that I'm well-meaning person, who knows HTML so-so, > and I want to write a page in Hebrew. What I'll probably do, is copy > from some other page I saw, and test it against the browser I have. > Which may not be the browser that we like (whatever it is). If you want to make sure the page is good, validate it with http://validator.w3.org/. If you care about browser compatibility, what professionals do is test with several browsers (at least: IE5, IE6, newest Mozilla, newest Opera, and if you want to support really old stuff - NS4). > So we're back on topic again. How can we expect people to write HTML > pages that comply with Mozilla, if there is no guide telling anyone how > to do that? Look here: http://mozilla.org.il/evangel.shtml > Ah, and I could expand this question: Is there any do and don't guide > for general web pages? We keep blaming sites for being non-standard, but > is there any simple guide anywhere that tells the web author what to do? > It's easy to say that a site should be W3C compliant, but what is W3C > exactly? Is there any simple text (defenitely not the standard itself) > that the non-genius web author can read, and say, "I'll do this"? First of all, if you have looked into the standard, it's not that hard to read. If you don't want to read the whole standard, read only the parts relevant to what you're doing. You can use authoring tools such as Mozilla Composer to write the page and (almost) ensure vaild HTML, and compatability with all browsers. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. -- Milton -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
