Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape website with WordPress

John Taber wrote:
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 11:30, you wrote:
I'll format my blogs simply using css (although even css doesn't work very well in IE for customers stuck with that so maybe I'll just keep my blogs in simple html).
I know quite a few people who would shoot you for saying that, although I'd rather they shot Microsoft ; ).
I don't understand why - I wasted a whole weekend redesigning our site using W3C standard CSS, testing on Mozilla and Konqueror then found out that it was basically unreadable in IE. So I've gone back to lots of tables.
Sorry, my comment was perhaps a little rude. I didn't mean it like that.
Basically, standards advocates (myself included) say that developing semantic (ie. not using tables for presentation), standards compliant sites is very important. There are lots of reasons: it helps search engines understand your content more, makes your site more accessible (by separating content and presentation), smaller file sizes, etc.
IE has crappy support for standards, which is where the fight begins. There are, however, ways to get around the IE difficulties including suicide, changing career, and forcing everyone to use Firefox. Errr, sorry, I mean browser specific "hacks" (filters), writing CSS in a more compatible "style", and some other little things to fix stuff as well (like for transparent PNGs). There is also a slight hope that one day Microsoft may decide to improve IE's standards support, but I personally think Firefox will take over sooner than that.
If you're still interested in going the standards route, you might find the following links to be of use (particularly the first):
* http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/04/30/a_roadmap_to/ * http://www.htmldog.com/ * http://www.positioniseverything.net/
This has gone wildly off topic though (sorry everyone!), so if you have any more questions feel free to email me direct and I'll do my best to help you out.
Jon
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Jonathan Leighton