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Steven Hildreth wrote: | Is w3/wia and w3/HTML compliance a requirement of the replacement | offering? Never was mentioned to me when I offered to create a new | modern, dynamic replacement site. | | No CMS stock package I have found (I have tested several for a | previous project including; PhpNuke, PostNuke, Slashcode, eGroupare, | Mambo, and XOOPS) generates either w3/wia or w3/HTML compliant code. | | My position is that if it renders well in Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror | and IE that is ensuring a wide enough target audience. Sure the Links | guys will get pissed, but realistically I think we should ensure | operability with the 99% audience - not degrade the overall visual | impression for all to appease the 1% | | Other opinions? | | Regards, | Steven (Tallen) | | | | On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 11:33:06 -0600, Jason Clinton [email protected] wrote: | |>Steven Hildreth wrote: |> |>>Hi, |>> |>>I am working on updating the KcLUG website to be a dynamic content |>>site via the XOOPS engine, other than a few graphics needed here and |>>there I think it is ready for beta-viewing by the group. |> |>I like the look but the use of tables as a formating tool is explicitly |>discouraged by the powers that be: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ |> |>Specifically, the goal is to make the site make sense when read |>linearly. (As if you were looking at the site in lynx.) |> |>Here is an analysis of the new page: |>http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/bobbyServlet?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kclug.org... |> |>Here's some other troubles with the content: |>http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kclug.org%2F%7Eshildreth%... |> |>As far as I know, there are no CMS's that use CSS as a layout tool -- |>CSS can addresses the WAI guidelines and allow the site to still look |>attractive. I would love to know of any CMS's that do use CSS for |>layout, though. Anyone?
I've already proposed this to the IRC channel, but why don't we work on making XOOP standards compliant? It would be a good LUG project. We'd be helping ourselves and others. I'm willing to help, but I won't be able to devote much time to it.
Chris - -- I digitally sign my emails. If you see an attachment with .asc, then that means your email client doesn't support PGP digital signatures. http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q1.1