- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:07:13 -0700
- To: Pat Byrne <pat@glasgowwestend.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 9:25 PM +0100 2001/7/06, Pat Byrne wrote: >You say the answer is to use style sheets - but how should it work for >browsers that can't use style sheets? Should I use the font element so that >the site looks the same on non-stylesheet browsers, or just not do anything >and have no colored navigation bars? i.e don't set a background color in >the table that contains the navigation and just use the default link colors. It's a hard call -- I try not to tell people what they "should" do on matters of style, design and preference. But I can tell you what I chose to do, in this circumstance. The HWG web site I referred to before (www.hwg.org) uses CSS extensively to build a particular look. However, we still wanted the navigation bars to LOOK like navigation bars -- and not just floating text without visual structure -- if CSS isn't available. So the HWG site uses background colors set in HTML -- but they are set to a light grey background. The hope is that it won't interfere too much with colors since it's neutralesque. Take a look at the site in Netscape 3 or any browser with the CSS turned off, and you'll see it in action. That's what we did there. The Idyll Mountain Internet site generally uses semi-redundant HTML markup to set a few things, but we don't go out of our way to try to duplicate everything the CSS does in HTML. --Kynn PS: And, of course, don't even think about looking at the Reef web site -- it's not under my control and is actually quite embarrassing! -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com> Technical Developer Liaison Reef North America Accessibility - W3C - Integrator Network Tel +1 949-567-7006 ________________________________________ BUSINESS IS DYNAMIC. TAKE CONTROL. ________________________________________ http://www.reef.com
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