html coding.

[Janina Sajka]

There are a lot of disability no'no's in what you're talking about. Please 
try to be part of the solution, and not part of the problem on this one. 
Look at http://www.w3.org/wai/ to learn the how, why, and wherefore of all 
of this. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) took on accessibility in a 
very serious way back in 1996. Since then, many brilliant minds from all 
over the planet have worked to define good web practices. The output of 
their efforts is in the uri I just gave.

Essentially, the correct answer to your question is very short. Display 
attributes ;should be handled by cascading style sheets. The html itself 
should be informational, and not presentational. In other words, the 
information and how it looks have been seperated into two separate 
specifications in order to support alternate displays such as speech, 
braille, small screens, large print, different languages, etc., etc.

So, consentrate on learning about parallel structures -- the <p> </p> 
tags; list items -- the <li> tag; ordered and unordered lists -- <ol> and 
<ul>; etc. Leave the presentational elements until you've mastered 
conveying information.

OK, you did ask! <grin>




On Mon, 17 
Sep 
2001, Shaun Oliver 
wrote:

> hi guys. I'm just starting out with raw coding of html.
> is there a way I can do silly things like set the colours and formatting
> atributes like bold, underline, etc?
> thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> Shaun..
> 
> Cat, n.:
> 	Lapwarmer with built-in buzzer.
> 
> Email: shauno at goanna.net.au
> 
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