- From: Jon Gilkison <jong@raremedium.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:50:43 -0400
- To: "'Charles Wiltgen '" <lists@wiltgen.net>, "'www-html@w3.org '" <www-html@w3.org>
It all depends on who you've sketched out to be the target audience, and where you guess their browser capability is at. The last site I worked on, because of Netscape 4 being the piece of bloated crapware that it is, and Microsoft's miscommunication between their mac and windows engineering teams, we had to create seperate stylesheets for both browsers and modify them with JSP pending what OS was looking at it, just to get a uniform look. If you think you're target audience is slightly behind and still using a 3.0 browser, you can forget stylesheets completely and get familiar with approximating a design implementation with our good friend, the <font> tag. My best advice to you is to forget about 3.0 browsers unless you're audience is from South America or any where north of South Africa (this is based on actual market research we conducted for the last site I worked on which was targeted directly at latin america). Get yourself a mac g4 and sit it right next to your latest wintel PC and go back and forth with the stylesheets till you hit a happy medium. If your designers are anal about making sure you capture their vision 100% investigate dynamic fonts for both browsers. Make sure you contrast and compare between all different versions, including subversions for Netscrape. Add a dash of salt, shake as desired and enjoy. Jon Gilkison Lead Design Technologist Rare Medium - NYC http://www.raremedium.com
Received on Sunday, 30 April 2000 19:47:16 UTC