<da*******@gmai l.comwrote in message
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*With manual.
http://darwinist.googlepages.com/htmldesktop.html
Please criticise or contribute.
Ditch the client-side code. Most of your visitors don't even know you, and
have no reason to trust you to run unquarantined/unscanned code on their
computers. If you want to do something interesting, use SSI, CSS, HTML 4.01
Strict DTD, and if all else fails there are always server-side CGI scripts -
then it does not matter if your visitor puts you on the Restricted Sites
list, the page still displays as intended.
For example, take the web-menus and fixed branding at:
www.fieldcraft.biz
Never mind the atrocious green colour scheme. It works as intended in Gecko,
Opera, & IE - and runs no client side code as seen in other menu systems -
and because it all runs in the basis of overlapping formats, it loads and
functions faster than anything you could hack out with JavaScript or .NET -
All this and it validates as well, so one can reasonably hope (but not
reasonably assume) that future user agents won't deviate so far as to effect
the look and feel of the page display.
Are you selling something? Something the marketing meat-heads who think that
well-formed XHTML vs conformable HTML makes a scrap of difference to the
visitor don't understand; is that the people who spend money online are
those who know the security ropes - and who don't allow web-sites to run the
sort of code that could just as easily install spyware to go fishing for
bank account numbers and passwords. The luddites won't spend a dime because
they are too lazy to learn anything more than the high cost of foolishness.
If you want the online spenders to buy from you, let the established, known,
trusted third-party merchant provider run the client-side code and you
concentrate on making the website equally accessibly to those who do not
take unnecessary risks while browsing. Most importantly, forget impressing
the luddites who want to be dazzled by Hollywood because that ain't where
the money is, unless you are making movies instead of web pages!
Just my two cents. I hope you find it useful in some way...
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