Re: Collected suggestions for index.html changes...

[Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn joshuaeichorn com>]

Steve Hall wrote:

> I'm obviously not being clear. Below is a screenshot of the current
> www.gnome.org web site, in a typically configured Internet Explorer
> 6.0.28..., on Windows XP, at default font size, at 810x664:
>
>  http://www.mindspring.com/~digitect/gnome/gnome.org-screenshot.png
>
> Barbaric, eh? I'm not exactly certain of what your definition of
> "evil" entails, but mine includes sites like the current gnome.org
> front page which are neither flexible or practically implemented.
>
> If this is where our HACKING guidelines or any other rigid adherence
> to theoretical guidelines or standards get us, then we've taken a
> wrong turn somewhere. 
>
> I appear to be a lone dissenter here. Does anyone else care?
>
>
>  
Last time browser usage #s were posted to this list enough people were 
using Internet Explorer that this is a big deal.

This is the web you can't just rigidly follow standards or your site 
won't display on any browser.
-josh