Comments on: Blowing a raspberry to Operation Firefox

By: bruce

bruce — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:04:07 +0000

Tim - good to hear that it'll be repaired. Nearly a fine example of how zealous marketing sabotaged the Mozilla branding of open-ness and standards.

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:32:28 +0000

People still build pages with tables used for layout?

Okay, okay, that’s not so far-fetched. It probably makes sense to designers. The worst culprits I see for it are developers, though. Developers who understand the difference between layers; the separation between form and function, and the need and long-term benefits of abstraction. Developers understand that building something in the most correct way possible means you don’t have to go back and do it again a few months down the line, and know that a good defensive strategy is to stick as close as possible to best practices unless you can be very very sure that the best practice is wrong. Good developers, I mean.

And yet… good developers still write HTML with inline images used solely for effect and tables used solely for layout. It’s like there’s a mental block or something.

By: Tim Keenan

Tim Keenan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:17:10 +0000

I think you’ll notice a marked improvement shortly.
If you’re still having trouble, just let me know. All the images will have alt-tags and the tables should be parsed correctly by your screen-reader. If you use a magnifier and are running into problems, drop me a note or post a comment. Thanks.

By: bruce

bruce — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:55:08 +0000

I don’t use SIFR, but from what I’ve read, it’s too slow to use as body text, so maybe the Operation Firefox page would be slowed by using SIFR for all its fancy fonts. But I’m willing to be corrected.

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:43:23 +0000

Or sIFR.

By: Daniel Walker

Daniel Walker — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:05:29 +0000

Well, they used real text for the cipyright notice, down at the bottom (just in case you felt like coopying it ))