html coding.

Mon Sep 17 10:33:18 EDT 2001

let's not forget 
but don't condemn too quickly:
 and what about the wonderful:
<center></center>
and the neat <hr>
with it's possible attribs.

Whilst I agree that style sheets are the way to go for massive
effectiveness It can be hard to implement them propperly and simple html
without breaking any rules can go far in good stead.

Also, there is nothing wrong with coding link colors by the numbers.  If
we don't get this correct, someone will be telling us that we can use
blue, green and read just like that which doesn't work well for most
presentation tools.
Enjoy!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: html coding.

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 
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..
>
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