- From: dody suria wijaya <dodysw@telkom.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:07:41 +0700
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
yeah. non-compliant to XHTML is a problem for future new non-pc devices. but it is not the only trouble. current web design is only tested for legibility under popular PC-based browser. and most web designer would not sacrifice 'cool factor' (flash, animated gif, big jpeg, moving button, etc) just for the sake of accessibility to all devices. most web designer in the near future would probably give alternative version to choose for instead: (1) for people with PC. the design will be just like today. but even more complicated, more non-compliant, and more abusive (table as layout etc). web designer will get younger and more abundant = more design mistakes. (2) for people with non-PC. a lazy webmaster aiming for as many people as possible, will only built (2). a young, non-experienced, 'cool' designer will only built (1). bigger and commerce website will build both. currently, there is a race between: - small devices increasing computing power and logic to render more non-compliant websites. - and web designer learning to write more compliant websites so it can be rendered on more devices. in such a way that we shouldn't worry much about in-existance of <tr> and <td> closing tags of today. though i agree that to support non-pc internet devices manufacturer, some one should buy that products, which depends on how good it can render most websites, which depends on people writing compliant code. everyone has a role here ;) Wednesday, March 13, 2002, 3:36:21 PM, you wrote: CM> It is compliant with HTML, but not with XHTML. In other words you will be CM> backwards compatible still, but not forwards compatible. It saves bytes over CM> the network, at the cost of kilobytes in browser size, meaning more expensive CM> systems are required to read it. CM> (One of the reasons why phone systems all work on XML is that it can be used CM> in a smaller computer, and phones have small computers in them) CM> This is the classic chicken and egg problem that plagues accessibility, in CM> one of its easier forms. If developers do not produce forwards-compatible CM> code, then there is little point in having newer systems that are designed to CM> take advantage of design improvements. So the relatively expensive work of CM> developing accessible systems that take advantage of that will have a tiny CM> market. -- dody suria wijaya -> mailto:dody@failco.com -> http://failco.com
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