Re: vCard site demo REDEUX

["David A. Desrosiers" <hacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Well, I'm still at it. The vCard site has been revamped again with better
> HTML, (no tables) which makes it better suited to handheld devices and
> reduces overall size.

	If you're talking about the brinkster.com site you linked to later
on in this message, it doesn't pass the standard w3c validator located at
validator.w3.org.

	It will also fail WAI-AAA accessibility validation. Light-grey on a
white background? Did you consider colorblind people in your tests? What
about text-to-speech readers?

	I'm not sure what all that javascript garbage is in there, but if
you're relying on it for navigation, that will break too, in text-mode
browsers, screen scraping tools, Text-to-Speech (TTS) tools, as well as on
any WAP, handheld, PDA, or cellphone device.

> Updates include a new XP-Like UI, and it looks identical in Opera, NS7,
> IE5+, AOL without having to maintain separate pages or css files.

	Have you tried it in Netscape 4.xx? It looks horrible. Lots of
corporations still use this browser due to legacy application requirements.
You can easily make a Netscape 4.xx stylesheet and allow those browsers that
recognize it, to use it. Properly cascading (hence the name) style
properties in your various style sheets would have prevented this
css-per-browser mess.

> MSN TV will be sniffed out and redirected because it has problems with the
> <label> tag, which is required to be Bobby "A" approval. It's on the todo
> list.

	Are you doing actual UserAgent sniffing? That's not going to work in
most cases, and in fact, will fail in 99% of the cases you probably coded it
for.

	Good luck, and keep up the work, you're almost there.

d.

perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")'

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