Re: Logo for user-friendly/browser-friendly/scalable pages
Walter Ian Kaye (walter@natural-innovations.com)
Thu, 28 Aug 1997 17:04:45 -0700
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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 17:04:45 -0700
To: www-html@w3.org
From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
Subject: Re: Logo for user-friendly/browser-friendly/scalable pages
At 3:49p -0500 08/28/97, Charles E. Carroll wrote:
> But I think there's a problem with the Any Browser Initiative as
> well. Specifically, with the word "Any."
> OK, my example is farfetched, but the issue is not. Lynx doesn't
> support tables, after all. Do we eschew tables? Yes, I know
> that many tables can be made Lynx-friendly with appropriate use
> of <br>, <p>, etc., and I do when I can, but 1) there are some tables
> which are not easily made Lynx-friendly, and 2) since tables are
> standard HTML, why should we have to write ugly code like that?
Hmm... I'm getting an idea...
How about some sort of "geek code" (but not as geeky) where we enumerate
what the page uses, something like:
Level 0: does not use
Level 1: optional
Level 2: required
Y: yes/true
N: no/false
*: any
modifier: "+" = heavy use (cpu-intensive?)
TBL: tables
FRM: frames
IMG: images
216: non-dithering palette
JS: JavaScript
CK: cookies
J: Java
WW: window width
So, an enumeration might look like:
216=Y; WW=472-*; JS=1; CK=0; J=0; TBL=2+; IMG=1,#5:6K,WHA
The extra parms on IMG mean 5 pics totaling 6KB, and all having width=,
height=, and alt= attributes.
Just brainstorming...
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