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to: Pascal Schmidt
from: Wayne Chirnside
date: 2003-10-30 11:31:00
subject: Re: Intersting URLs

-=> PASCAL SCHMIDT wrote to CHARLES ANGELICH <=-

 PS> Hi Charles! :-)

 CA> It is possible to write HTML that will degrade gracefully for
 CA> use with text-only browsers. It requires some additional
 CA> planning and time to do it well but it can be done.
 PS> Yep. It's also interesting how much can be done with CSS without
 PS> requiring additional graphics. For example, look at www.mozilla.org
 PS> while disallowing all images to load (in Firebird, you can do that by
 PS> right-clicking on the Mozilla logo on the site and selecting "Block
 PS> images from this server" in the context menu, then press the
"Reload"
 PS> button). Even the two-colored textbox at top right stays the same, not
 PS> to mention that the whole layout of the page stays the same.

 PS> When I first saw the new Mozilla homepage layout, I thought "oh hell,
 PS> now they're also doing heavy graphics", but in fact they don't. I'm
 PS> pretty much impressed by how much one can do with CSS without graphics,
 PS> and it even looks much better and cleaner (IMHO) than
 PS> graphics-overloaded designs.

Thanks for the right click tip, going to try it on
www.compusa.com soon as I send this packet up.
 
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