Comments on: Why? Why? Why? http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2006/07/08/why-why-why/ Life, technology, research, and miscellany Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laura http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2006/07/08/why-why-why/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Laura Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:08:45 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2006/07/08/why-why-why/#comment-178 There *is* a standard at <a title="w3c Web standards" href="http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/wp-admin/www.w3c.org">W3C.org</a>. <a title="w3c CSS 1 specification" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1">Firefox legitimately supports the tag while IE legitimately doesn't.</a> The source of the page shows that the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-CSS-TECHS-20050630/Overview.html#text-decoration">text-decoration:blink </a> style has been added to each of the menu items. However, <a title="Microsoft's MSDN site" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/textdecoration.asp">Microsoft (legitimately and sensibly) don't render the blinking effect</a>. The offending webpage, though, was created using Microsoft's FrontPage software, which I'd expect to use IE under the covers, which doesn't display the blinking effect. I expect also that the site's designer, as Cerys says, tested the site in IE. Maybe FrontPage does display the blinking, then when it didn't work in IE during testing, the designer just shrugged his/her shoulders and left the tag in. Who knows! I still blame the designer for poor taste, usability, and Accessibility. There *is* a standard at W3C.org. Firefox legitimately supports the tag while IE legitimately doesn’t.

The source of the page shows that the text-decoration:blink style has been added to each of the menu items. However, Microsoft (legitimately and sensibly) don’t render the blinking effect. The offending webpage, though, was created using Microsoft’s FrontPage software, which I’d expect to use IE under the covers, which doesn’t display the blinking effect. I expect also that the site’s designer, as Cerys says, tested the site in IE.

Maybe FrontPage does display the blinking, then when it didn’t work in IE during testing, the designer just shrugged his/her shoulders and left the tag in. Who knows! I still blame the designer for poor taste, usability, and Accessibility.

]]> By: Cerys http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2006/07/08/why-why-why/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Cerys Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:08:41 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2006/07/08/why-why-why/#comment-110 It works ok in Internet Explorer. To be honest with many sites I think you're lucky if they test it in anything but IE. Really though - isn't it about time that there was a standard that works in all of them anyway! It works ok in Internet Explorer. To be honest with many sites I think you’re lucky if they test it in anything but IE. Really though – isn’t it about time that there was a standard that works in all of them anyway!

]]> By: John http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2006/07/08/why-why-why/comment-page-1/#comment-81 John Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:37:45 +0000 http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2006/07/08/why-why-why/#comment-81 I'm not sure what you're talking about, I use a funny WebKit based browser on OS X which just shows a normal page. Lets put it into Firefox to check what it looks like there ... OMG! For me though, sites like http://wildern.org/ are nearly as bad. Why the Flash ...why? I’m not sure what you’re talking about, I use a funny WebKit based browser on OS X which just shows a normal page. Lets put it into Firefox to check what it looks like there … OMG!

For me though, sites like http://wildern.org/ are nearly as bad. Why the Flash …why?

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