AFW FAQ draft
Jose wrote:
> Dark on light is easier to read than light on dark. Red on blue is hard to read.
The page has been changed to a light background and the colors have
been darkened somewhat to read well on it.
> The page resizes nicely. Great job on that! (I know, it's mostly a matter of -not- doing stuff to mess that up, but many designers do just that!)
> > since some of the
> > code is in a php script on the server that can not be viewed by the
> > user.
>
> It just turns out that way, or there's a reason to keep the user from reading the code?
This is just how php works, being a server side script. It has a
conversation with the viewing browser to see if it will support xhtml
1.1. If not, it rewrites the code to html 4.01 strict. Look at the page
code on a recent Firefox, Opera, or Netscape browser and you will see
xhtml 1.1 code. Look at the page code on IE6, and you will see html
4.01 strict code. This is what the php does.
> > I have not
> > attempted to support really old browsers, such as the Netscape 4
> > series, that are now all but gone.
Even in Dec 2004, the w3schools sites report only 0.2 % of Netscape 4
series were being used. They do not even report them since that. Anyone
who uses this old relic on the web these days on many of the most
important sites is going to have many problems and can not get into
some finance and other high security sites at all. The NN4 has poor
support of CSS which is nearly universal these days for new pages. It
is not being updated. It also is a security risk. However, even the
hackers seem to have lost interest in it. A NN4 hacker these days
likely would get as much respect from IE6 hackers as a bubble gum
machine thief would get from bank robbers.
> I'm using Netscape 7.2 on Windows 98.
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