- Q:
Which one of the screen shots is the correct
presentation?
- A:
Netscape 4, Konqueror, and WebTV are very
different from what the author intended.
Although some of the presentations are more like what the author
intended, there is no single correct presentation because on the
WWW authors cannot always
know what software their webpages will be viewed with.
- Q:
What can WWW authors do to make their webpages
appear more like they intended?
- A:
In computer science we are often more concerned with the content of
the message and not the presentation. We don't want the
presentation to be ugly or confusing but we usually care much more
about the content.
If the format of the presentation is very important then there are
a few things we can do, including:
- realizing that not everyone will be able to view our content the
way we want them too (for instance: people viewing the web on
cell phones and non-human search engines)
we concentrate on markup that should be presented in a
reasonable manner even if the presentation details cannot be
rendered.
- hope that users of browsers that do mangle CSS will deactivate
the CSS use in those browsers.
- use CSS (or JavaScript, or both) to inform
readers of the Browser Upgrade Campaign of The Web Standards Project with the hope that people will
stop using those browsers.
- Version:
- 31 October 2002
- CS 3172 Prof.:
- J. Blustein <jamie@cs.dal.ca>
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