[SLUG] Re: Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: Greetings. New user question.]

[Angus Lees]

\begin{Jeff Waugh}
> <quote who="Angus Lees">
> 
> > those sites never render correctly without javascript, flash, spacer.gifs,
> > 1x1.gifs and whatever other lame hacks are used by people who don't
> > understand html)
> 
> s/html/caring, considerate and cunning ways of making otherwise lamely
> hacked sites look great in text-based browsers, in other words, use freaking
> alt tags!/

and that there's no point worrying about pixel positioning, manually
specifying widths, etc.

how the page looks isn't up to the page writer, its up to the browser
and the user viewing it. what does the page writer know about what the
user wants to see?

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 - Gus.backtowork


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