Re: Any IE/Netscape Friendly Sites?

Sebastian P. <info@cornica.org> wrote:

In article <1rc2xcg.1lcgwet1gyk5dsN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid>,
 liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

My own website <http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk> works on most browsers
and was written with Claris Homepage in OS 8.6    Others I have written
include:
http://www.dorandsomcanal.org/
http://www.tedkendall.com/index.php
http://www.juliaamos.co.uk/index.php
http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/WOECLPGS/index.php
 
(Some of these use PHP to generate diary lists.)
 
I use to run several other websites but one-by-one they have been taken
off me and "Improved" so they no longer work on older browsers (or any
browsers at all, in one case.).

 
Liz, those are very nice websites! Information-dense yet visually
appealling and displaying fine in almost every browser no matter the age.
A true achievement in compatibility!

One basic rule is: "Don't Use Javascript".  

If you start including Javascript and trying to micro-manage the layout,
you are bound to come across browsers that can't read that particular
flavour.   Almost all of the functions of an information-only website
can be done in plain HTML with some PHP on the server   ...and there are
ways around those that can't.

For writing PHP I find BBEdit 4.1 does everything I need (in about 30 Mb
of memory) with Fetch 3.0.3 for uploading it.

 

I couldn't help but submit their URLs for indexing on wiby.org after I
discovered they aren't listed there yet. Perhaps a few more visitors will
come out of that. Your von Manstein's trial record is amazing btw. Never
thought such a thing existed as a record!

It's a long story (more than I can say on a public webpage).


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~ Liz Tuddenham ~
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