Re: Web Development Software

["David Prowak" <dprowak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad,

> Acutally most are programmed for IE or NS 4 or up.  Especially if you want
> to do neat stuff like layers.

You might want to be careful with your use of layers.  As an answer to IE5's
ability
to render dynamic content, layer is a proprietary extension to standard
HTML.
Worse yet, the layer tag WILL NOT be recognized by Gecko, Netscape's version
6 browser, due
out in a few weeks.  Now webmaster's who want to provide dynamic content
within a page must
support 3 ways to accomplish the same task.  Yuck!

That's just one reason of many for writing to the W3C standard for HTML and
DOM.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: Stone, Brad V (TC) <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 11:51 AM
Subject: RE: Web Development Software


> > I'm not clear why "strong" is preferred over "b". Maybe I'm
> > missing obvious
> > something here (it wouldn't be the first time <g>). As for
> > style sheets,
> > they're great, but only for newer browsers.
>
> "strong" is used by FP.  <b> is used by everything else it seems.  I think
> <b> is the standard, and <strong> is newer.  Some WYSIWYG editors don't
even
> recognize <strong>.
>
> I made the switch from FP to Dreamweaver and have to get rid of all the
> <strong>, <small>, etc. and use REAL tags like <font>, <b>, etc.
>
> >
> > Agreed on the background images <g>. As for using tables,
> > what most web
> > designers do is design for IE and Netscape 3.0 browsers and
> > above, so it is
> > pretty much of sure thing on how the tables will be rendered.
>
> Acutally most are programmed for IE or NS 4 or up.  Especially if you want
> to do neat stuff like layers.
>
> Brad
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