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Pages written in my own time, I aim to make maximally
accessible to all, by using a simple portable HTML subset
that should run on all browsers. avoiding problematic feature
in many newer HTML extensions. (However customers sometimes
want & get more complex stuff for their other sites.)
Just Simple Text & Pictures.
I avoid features that make web access annoying, problematic,
browser dependent, slow, troublesome, operating systems
dependent, inefficient, and privacy intrusive etc, EG:
None Of This:
- Animated graphics, Pop up adverts,
Flashing/Blinking.
- Assumptions of screen pixel dimensions &
density,
- Background graphics,
- Click-able maps (maybe you don't have a mouse & are
in text mode, or even a blind user using a line display
adaptor).
- Cookies,
- Counters & Trace Loggers (EG triggered on
gifs).,
- Forced font sizes styles &,
- Forced colours,
- Checks that you have 32K+ colours in your palette, when
you mostly need no more than in use already.
- Dark blue or red fonts on black backgrounds,
- Frames,
- Language Extensions: Java, Php, etc,
- Plug Ins: Shockwave etc,
- Proprietary formats EG Micro$oft's excremental .doc
& .exe.
If You Want Entertainment, Flash, & Glitz...
- Try a disco or cinema, or one of the many web sites
designed & commissioned by blinkered authors &
owners, so clueless they often don't realise their
overloaded junk can deter both technically proficient
people, & obstruct people using older hardware &
software. Their pages may look superficially attractive or
impressive, but using such features is not always wise or
appropriate.
- Writing such pages with all the tricks can be fun, so
much that some do it for free, & some start making
heavy emphasis on so called `Design', & of course many
are delighted to be paid to do that, but it misses the
point: for some readers all those extra features are just
noisy junk obscuring information, that may well increase
risk of breakage &/or obstruction.
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