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Originally posted by Aaron Knight
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The W3C compliant challenge is effectively moot....I doubt FIRST will implement that. However, here is my addition to the other challenge....make EVERY page backwards-compliant and TEST it THOROUGHLY in every browser you can get your hands on before you use it. This includes LYNX and old versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer. My personal browser of choice is iCab for Mac, and (sorry to the winner of the Canadian Regional's website award) I was able to tell how their page is designed to look, but it loads very improperly in that and other browsers I have used. Don't assume that everyone has the (or is even capable of having) the latest browsers and every plugin under the sun. Many users out there are still using old PCs and Macs with antiquated browsers to browse the internet - and a good design job will work well in their Netscape 1.1 or whatever just as well as Internet Explorer 6 on Windoze XP. A bad one (or a rushed one) will look bad on an old browser, and to a decent web designer will look just as bad on a new one. The old maxim still applies - KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid).....don't try to go for form over function. Functionality first, (i.e. content, actual information) over bells and whistles.
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Yeah. I personally use lynx as a benchmark. If most of your stuff can be seen in lynx, you're fine. Lynx can even view PHP, although it runs into trouble with webforums and the like.
iCab, eh? I'll have to check it out. I use Safari because it's fast as lightning, but it's about as compatible as iMovie 3 with DOS.
--Petey