Comments on: Closing the gap – User Agent improvements

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:25:59 +0000

Hi Tim, thanks for dropping by

It kind of depends how you view it, it could be less?

I’m pre-empting the next article really, but I beleive that the core responsibility on the development side is to separate content and style so you don’t create a barrier to the user adjusting the pages for themselves.

If you add extra functionality for accessibility (due to supporting particular audiences, a very ‘flashy’ pixel perfect site, or having the budget), I think it should be in quite a defined (standardised) way that supports the methods above.

To be fair, there aren’t more variations above than are available today, I’m just suggesting that they are made easier to find and use.

By: Tim Beadle

Tim Beadle — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:37:08 +0000

Alastair,

That’s a great idea. The only issue I can see is that, for the site developer, it increases exponentially the burden of testing as there are now so many more variations in user-agent behaviour.

By: Kynn

Kynn — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:10:44 +0000

Wow! Someone actually remembered my old Edapta work… I’m touched! *sniffle*

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