[Gllug] [OT]Reforming wayward web designers

[Rob Crowther]

Garry Heaton wrote:
> Your average
> web developer, doing PHP/Perl backend stuff with a database, has only a
> limited amount of time to get the front end right and isn't going to be able
> to follow all the CSS/web standards/accessibility to the letter.

A valid point, but also an argument for getting a specialist to do your 
user interface instead of letting a developer do it perhaps?  Plus 
following accessibility guidelines will be a legal requirement for some 
sites.

> Getting
> complex CSS layouts working consistently, for me, involved a considerable
> outlay on hardware to start with:
> 
http://www.browsercam.com/ will take care of most testing needs for a 
lot less than all the hardware if you only need it for the odd 
month/hour here and there, and saves you all the system maintenance.

> - Windows XP + Virtual PC for testing:

Not sure why you need VirtualPC either?  IE can be run in side by side 
mode if you have .Net framework, see 
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article.aspx?ID=795

I managed to get IE3 running on my PC at work, and it made all the fancy 
modern websites look very ugly :)

Rob
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