- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:59:10 -0800
- To: RUST Randal <RRust@COVANSYS.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 2:04 PM -0500 1/14/02, RUST Randal wrote: >Kynn, > >Really the point of asking the question is based on the age-old request by >clients to provide sites that work in IE and Netscape. Our clients are now >starting to ask for Section 508 compliance or some level of W3C WAI >compliance. In both instances, it is recommended that the <label> tag be >used for forms. So if Netscape doesn't support <label>, then why should we >code for Netscape at all? I don't know. You'd have to ask your clients that. I don't see any particularly good reason to "code for" buggy versions of Netscape 4. Code around it, maybe, if something will break. What about a <label> tag makes the site "not work" in Netscape 4? (Nothing, to the best of my knowledge.) Ergo, a form coded to 508 or WCAG standards does indeed "work" in both IE and Netscape, as well as a number of other browsers out there with varying degree of standards compliance. I'm still confused as to your question. Are you saying you would stop using <label> because Netscape 4 has no idea what to do with it? That sounds as absurd as removing a Braille sign because most people in the world don't read Braille. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201 Forthcoming: Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours
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