Re: HTML and Screen Specs

Warren Mayer (wmayer@rci.rutgers.edu)
Fri, 6 Jun 1997 09:29:30 -0400

A small guide distributed within the Orange group is fine, but please
don't distribute it campus-wide so we, the committee, won't be trying to
establish a standard on people who won't want to change from the
"standards" they've gotten from your guide. It is easier to lay out a
framework for such a guidebook when there are no preconceived ideas in the
minds of the campus community.

W-

At 9:11 AM -0400 6/6/97, Ray Schwartz wrote:
>Warren,
>
>For a comprehensive guide called "guide to developing webpages", I would
>agree. But a brief guide on points for coding a web page to both
>text-based and graphical-based browsers, I see no problem. We're only
>talking about a small and important area. /Ray
>
>On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Warren Mayer wrote:
>
>> Ray,
>>
>> 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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