Joachim Dagerot domino.dagerot.com
“our split is approximately 75% Netscape, 12 % Internet Explorer and 13% other. The "other" category is split, but from what I can tell, only.5% are accessing our site with Lynx.” March 28 10:11:24 EDT 1997
WEB STANDARDS WHY IT DOESN’T PAY
What are web standards? When the markup follows the semantics When the layout is controlled by CSS When the reader chooses what user agent to use Graceful degradation (WAI/WCAG)
2007
Statistics Javascript disabled: 4% CSS disabled: ? Lynx: 0% Disabled people / mac users: <4% XP: OS/2: Amiga: 104
Why web standards I wanna sell and I want everyone to buy Major difference between an internet and an intranet solution Information still available, although not beautifully presented, in legacy browsers/devices
Reality
Advanced table:
Name Telephone Advanced table:
Real world examples Site 1 (World wide fastfood company): – Built 1999 Site 2 (World wide industry company): – Built 2002 – upgraded 2004 CSS used for formatting, example:.green-large-text {}
Web standards and tools Episerver Sharepoint Portal Server Websphere Portal Server Lotus Domino Word
Life without javascript Discuss: – AJAX solutions
ECMAScript vs Pure HTML/CSS Double code base Back to the nineties Double expenses
W3C Slow (No XmlHttpRequest yet) User agent providers choose what to implement
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 1 vs Version 2 Version 2 only in draft
I do encourage everyone to follow standards