[plug] web coding standards (was: Recommended computer store)

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Craig Ringer wrote:

> 
> > A quick example that 
> > comes to mind, is Star Office 5.2.
> 
> Uggh, what a god-awful hack. I wouldn't bother to care if that didn't 
> work, frankly - no more than i'd care if a perl-based browser I'd 
> written in 5 minutes didn't work. The client must also make an effort to 
> be compliant.
> 

As it is, Star Office 5.2 has the only web browser that I can reliably 
use to print web pages in black or grayscale only, and it is the only 
one that I have managed to get to print headers and footers for the web 
pages (well, it includes the information in page headers, anyway, even 
if it does not print it in footers).

As an example, I have just tried to print a web page with Opera, and, 
while Star Office 5.2 has it at 3 pages to print, Opera started off on a 
rabid print run of 55 pages, before I killed the print job. The web page 
was "6 page downs" at (I believe) 1024 x 768 screen resolution, which I 
believe, is 3 A4 pages printed.

Later versions of Star Office, and, Open Office, lack the functionality 
of Star Office 5.2. The latest versions my be able to create PDF 
documents, but, to me, Star Office 5.2 remains superior, due to its 
greater functionality (email, scheduling, calendar, etc).

If, instead of abandoning Star Office 5.2 as an office suite, Sun had 
continued its development, with the features of Star Office 5.2 not 
reduced, Sun would have a far superior product. Of course, all the 
supporters of Open Office, on this list, will probably disagree with me, 
but that is their prerogative.

So, for me, Star Office 5.2 is my office suite of choice.

It is the attitude "If they want to visit our website, they will use 
what we want them to use, or they can take a running jump", that creates 
the problems with websites, and the lack of accessibility with websites.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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