A brief introduction to HTML
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Why do professional Web designers make such a mess of
scaling?
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Most 'professional' web designers started life as (or were
trained by) graphic designers
- They still think on paper
- Flexibility frightens them
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Things which make flexibility work well don't work the same
across all browsers
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Older browsers (including both Internet Explorer 4 and
Netscape 4) handle stylesheets very badly
- As late as version 5, Internet Explorer still
gets some things wrong
- A graphic will always look the same
- Styled text won't always look the same especially on
older browsers
- Some people think making a thing always look the same is
more important than making it usable.
- A lot of people think that if it works all right with
their favourite browser that's good enough.