User: Valarauko

Re:Cry for relevency

On: W3C Considering An HTML 5

One example is a seperator line. Most people write

<p>text</p>
<img src="seperator.png" alt="seperator line"/>
<p>text</p>

which would render like:

text
seperator line
text

This is stupid, but only a person is able to unterstand that. A better value would've been "----------".

And how would a person's screenreader speak "----------"? I would rather a sight-impaired user of my site hear "separator line" between blocks of text than "dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash dash".

IE7 on Linux

On: IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare

ies4Linux is still supporting IE7 installation only in beta. You have to use the --beta-install-ie7 command-line option when installing. I have seen some issues, notably with transparency support (GIF and PNG), but I primarily use IE7 to test layout positioning. The transparency issues are apparently a problem with wine.

Re:I assume IE7 has improved web standards support

On: IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare

As a Linux and Firefox user I haven't been able to use Internet Explorer 7 yet...
As a Linux user, I've also been running IE7 by using the ies4linux installation script. I have IE versions 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, and 7.0 installed to run using wine. Not great for browsing on a regular basis (that's what Firefox and Opera are for), but a necessity for testing and development.