[Gllug] Off Topic Not a Plug

[tet at accucard.com]

>It really shouldn't be a case of making the site compatible with
>Linux, IE, Netscape, Opera or any other of the platform/browser
>combinations out there. If developers stopped being lazy and started
>complying with standards this problem wouldn't exist.

Oddly enough, I was having the same argument with our web designer
yesterday. He said it was too expensive to build two sites, when
the number of people using the minimalist site was so small. I pointed
out that if he designed it right in the first place, he only needed to
make one site, and it would work everywhere.

>Anyway SVG and DHTML will do anything Flash can do and it will work
>an many more browsers.

Actually, I doubt that. Flash is actually very versatile, and the web
needs it, or something similar. It has a widely published file format,
and alternative implementations are available for those using platforms
that aren't supported by Macromedia. The only thing it's really lacking
is accessibility features so that the blind, or those using text only
browsers aren't left floundering.

That's not to say I wholeheartedly approve of Flash. I think in 99% of
places it's used, the site would be better off without it. But for the
small proportion of sites that do need something like it, Flash is a
pretty good option. If modern browsers were shipped with a modern,
fast JVM, then that would do the job, but they're not...

Tet

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