While I agree that a "Guide to Developing Webpages" for this campus is a
good idea, I diagree with your idea of posting it University-wide just
yet. The development of such a guide is one of the items on the table of
the Web Advisory Committee here in Newark, of which I am a member. The
purpose of this committee is to provide standards and guidance to the
Newark community in relation to developing for Newark INFO and the general
INFO at large. Before you (and the members of the Orange group as well)
go and create a guide for yourselves, you should bring this topic to the
attention of the next committee meeting (you can email either Ron Hart
(rhart@andromeda) or Don McCabe (dmccabe@andromeda) to place an item on the
table.
Warren
At 9:12 PM -0400 6/5/97, Ray Schwartz wrote:
>> Ray, thanks for reminding me of Netscape/IE similarities
>> and of Lynx. Would it make any sense to draw up a set of standards
>> among ourselves for primarily text-based pages and circulate them?
>>
>
>It is possible to write up a set of standards (maybe principles) for
>text-based pages (even with the changing standards). I would be very
>careful in using tables and frames (these don't always translate well in
>lynx) and the "alt" option in img tags. This is what first comes to mind.
>
>About whether we should write this up? I feel that the need is much
>greater than the orange group. Perhaps, this kind of document could be
>posted University wide?
>
>/Ray
Warren Mayer
Computing Services - Newark
Rutgers University
Email: wmayer@rci.rutgers.edu
wmayer@andromeda.rutgers.edu
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