If we want our documents to look their best, no matter what the browser,
yes we need it. We don't do it via paralell documents though, that would
be a royal pain. Here's a sample (from http://www.salemfive.com/)
#if TableWidth
<table cellpadding=3D0 cellspacing=3D0 width=3D"100%" border=3D0><tr><td=
align=3Dleft>
<a href=3D"virtualbanking.html"><img align=3Dleft
src=3D"/uimages/salemfive/vbankicon.gif" border=3D0 alt=3D""></a>
<b>
<a href=3D"virtualbanking.html">
Introducing
VirtualBanking</a>
<br>Online bill-paying, homebanking and more.
<br>Your first three months are free.</b>
</td>
<td align=3Dright>
<b><a href=3D"mortcoupon.html">$#$CSAVE# Off<br>Mortgage Closing
Costs!</a><br>Internet Users Only</b>
</td></tr></table>
#else
#if SideAlign
<img align=3Dleft src=3D"/uimages/salemfive/buttonspace2.gif" width=3D25=
0
height=3D1 alt=3D" ">
#endif
<a href=3D"virtualbanking.html">
<img align=3Dleft src=3D"/uimages/salemfive/vbankicon.gif" border=3D0 al=
t=3D""></a>
<b><a href=3D"virtualbanking.html">Introducing VirtualBanking</a>
<br>Online bill-paying, homebanking and more.
<br>Your first three months are free.</b><br>
<br clear=3Dall>
<b><a href=3D"mortcoupon.html">$#$CSAVE# Off<br>Mortgage Closing
Costs!</a><br>Internet Users Only</b>
#endif
or later on
#elif TextOnly
<dl>
<dt><b><a href=3D"virtualbanking.html">VirtualBanking</a>
<dd>Online bill-paying, homebanking and more.
<br>Your first three months are free.</b>
<dt> <a href=3D"special.html"><b>Specials</b></a>
<dd> #$SPECIAL#<br><b><i> -- for on-line customers only!</i></b>
<b><a href=3D"mortcoupon.html">$#$CSAVE# Off Mortgage Closing=
Costs!</a> -
- Internet Users Only</b>
<dt> <a href=3D"welcome.html"><b>Welcome</b></a>
<dd> #$WELCOME#
<dt> <a href=3D"personal.html"><b>Personal Banking Services</b></a>
<dd> #$PERSONAL#
<dt> <a href=3D"alternative.html"><b>Alternative Delivery Systems</b></a=
>
<dd> #$ALTERNATIVE#
<dt> <a href=3D"business.html"><b>Business Banking Options</b></a>
<dd> #$BUSINESS#
<dt> <a href=3D"calcs.html"><b>Interactive Calculators</b></a>
<dd> #$CALCS#
</dl>
>Just pick a relatively low-level, common, spec-compliant table format, and
>send it to everyone. People using Cello 1.0 will be screwed but so what.
It all depends on whether you want things to look the best possible or just
somewhere in the middle.
>
>It's these da#& user-agent-negotiation people (YAHOO - THIS MEANS YOU) that
>are still sending me non-table versions even though Spyglass Mosaic 2.1 doe=
s
>tables very well thank you. Quite annoying.
Where does Spyglass publish a list of features it does and doesn't support?
Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81 617.768.5500
nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.