Re: Beginner @ HTML, no CSS, Java? HA! Site for Work

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 21:57:27 +0100, David Dorward <dorward (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
wrote:

David ... I found your critique to be very thorough and informative.
I learned some things that I wasn't aware of...thanks ! I hope that
you can expand on a couple of these for me.

(2) You claim to be using HTML 4.01 Transitional (even though new documents
should be written using HTML 4.01 Strict) but fail to follow the spec:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...companies.com/

I am also using HTML 4.01 Transitional and my site validates. Can you
tell me where it is stated that "new documents should use strict"?

(6) You use block capitals in a number of places, these are hard to read.

[In your follow-up post, you add:

Then at least use CSS to capitalise it and use normal case in the HTML.
IIRC, some screen readers spell out capitalised words.]

I encountered this very problem with some acronyms; I discovered it
when I viewed my page via IBM Home Page Reader. In my case, it isn't
really block text, but acronyms...it actually tried to "pronounce" one
as a word. I still have to go back and code <abbr>. Should I use
CSS text-transform in conjunction with <abbr>, or are they mutually
exclusive in this case?

Thanks
Fred

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:59:21 -0400, Fred wrote:

I am also using HTML 4.01 Transitional and my site validates. Can you
tell me where it is stated that "new documents should use strict"?

There is nowhere that says this (well, nowhere "official"). However, the
HTML 4.01 standard lists a number of elements and attributes as
"deprecated". These elements are ones that you should really be avoiding.

Also, there is a strong correlation between deprecated elements and the
differences between Strict and Transitional:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html

You'll find a similar relationship in the attributes:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html

Notice all the "extra" elements in Transitional are deprecated (except
iframe), so if you are using Transitional instead of Strict, it is
probably because you are using deprecated elements, which is a Bad Thing.

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