Has anyone else seen any changes in larger organisations?
Yep, we do work for some medium-to-large companies and nonprofits in the US
(Clairol, Marriott, Disney), and while individual client interest in
standards varies (usually dependent on clients' general technical awareness,
IMO), we do get
while scrolling up/down with your
mouse wheel. That really set off the flicker on my browser.
HTH,
Chris Keane
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In the (odd) case i'm right, is there some spec that states that an
image always needs a description?
The http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd requires an alt
attribute for images, and the HTML DTD shows a similar requirement:
!ELEMENT img EMPTY
!ATTLIST img
%attrs;
src
If it is the only thing
causing a site not to validate, what harm is it really?
Won't it push IE into quirks mode because it's not validating?
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You should make up a test that starts with typical graphical elements that
your company uses and perhaps a hand drawn mock up of a page. Have them
design first in fireworks or whatever your graphic design tool of choice
is the layout and then ask them to create a rough HTML of it. Then you can
I just checked my site
www.cinema4duser.com in Mozilla and it wasn't applying CSS.
have
you validated your CSS?
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
I find
that if part of the CSS is invalid, Mozilla ignores the wholething.
Sometimes even a single line will crash it.
Try
commenting out
