Linked by Adam S on Wed 6th Jul 2005 06:30 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes Today, after several weeks of testing, we are pleased to present OSNews version 3.0. This document will serve as the definitive guide to using the new site, detailing the new features and perks.
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RE: bad html
by Eugenia on Wed 6th Jul 2005 11:45 UTC in reply to "bad html"
Eugenia
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2005-06-28

OSNews has the HTML it has for a REASON. And OSNews does not use 4.01, it uses a mix of things, mostly 3.2.

> Fix form tags used inside of tables. I know this is just a hack to fix spacing but you can use valid html and just style the form tag to remove spacing by style="margin:0px;

No, CSS is not acceptable for this. We have to render well on old browsers and using FORM instead table TRs is the trick we need.

>- Fix the broken </a> tags near Score:
>- Fix the missing tr tag

I will let Adam have a look on that.

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RE[2]: bad html
by Stunami on Wed 6th Jul 2005 12:21 in reply to "RE: bad html"
Stunami Member since:
2005-07-06

I totally understand having to support older browsers but for the other 99.8% (i dont want to argue the actual percentage of older browsers but we are talking probably less than 1% after all i'm just trying to help!) of browsers out there it'd be nice to have valid html.

Its probably better if you suggest to Adam to look through the validation results are there are lots of small errors.

how about for the future improvement the accessibility of pages to say at least level AA?

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RE[2]: bad html
by John Nilsson on Wed 6th Jul 2005 15:46 in reply to "RE: bad html"
John Nilsson Member since:
2005-07-06

Even if OSNews must support a lot of browsers. Does it have to look EXACTLY the same in all of them?

If a little touch of css would improve usabillity for a large group of users but otherwise don't mess with the layout for non-CSS browsers, why not?

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