[X-Newbies] I'm looking for a copy of IE 5...

[Richard Ramsowr]

Robert

Thanks a lot for the info I going to forward it on to
the power to be and yest rtm soft is a french based
corporation. fort the looks of things i must have hit
upon a sore spot!

Rich
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--- Robert MacLeay <robertmacleay at mac.com> wrote:

> For perspective, I suggest you read this Macintouch
> thread on
> marginalization: http://tinyurl.com/pdgqb
> 
> To boil it down: Too many websites are built by
> idiots who are either too
> lazy or too stupid to realize that using Microsoft's
> web tools to build web
> sites means that those web sites will run with only
> ONE browser -- MISE 6
> for Windows.  These sites even break with MSIE 7!
> 
> They get away with this because 80%+ of all users
> have this browser.  At the
> moment.  
> 
> When I tried Safari 2.0.3 on www.rtmsoft.com I got
> two error messages: File
> not found for both site icon and some .swf
> animation.  I notice that the
> page source code reports its native language is
> French.  I am guessing here:
> these people grabbed some code off (their foreign
> supplier's?) website and
> tried to reuse it would understanding what they are
> doing. Further proof:
> examining the source code shows several paragraphs,
> each repeated four
> times. 
> 
> Running it through the validator at
> http://validator.w3.org/  gives this
> message: 
> "The DOCTYPE Declaration was not recognized or is
> missing. This probably
> means that the Formal Public Identifier contains a
> spelling error, or that
> the Declaration is not using correct syntax.
> Validation has been performed
> using a default "fallback" Document Type Definition
> that closely resembles
> "HTML 4.01 Transitional", but the document will not
> be Valid until you have
> corrected this problem with the DOCTYPE
> Declaration."
> 
> My conclusion is that your clients are hopeless
> idiots; this is not (today)
> a Mac/PeeCee issue.
> 
> I suggest you forward this URL to them and have them
> check out how their web
> site looks like in a variety of browsers:
> browsershots.org/  (note: this
> site is VERY busy.)
> 
> 
> On 9/9/06 3:06 PM, "Richard Ramsowr"
> <r.ramsowr at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > Is there something I need to tell the client they
> need
> > to add to make their site more accessible us MAC
> folks
> > - after all we are a growing breed these days
> 
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