[WEB4LIB] Re: Fonts & CSS

[Russell Voigt]

Hi All,

I have been directed to keep our pages accessible to as many browser types
as possible; we still have patrons using IE 2.0 and text browsers that are
not CSS compliant. To keep older and less-popular browsers accessible I've
stayed away from using CSS all together and still use the font tag through
HTML Styles in Dreamweaver MX. I'm also implementing Active Server Pages
because it does it's calculations on the server then returns pure HTML to
the browser.

I thought his solution was a good one because I'm using the lowest common
denominator - pure HTML. Has other library systems given up completely on
these browsers/patrons or is there another solution that I'm not aware of?
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Russell Voigt
Systems Analyst
Anne Arundel County Public Library 
www.aacpl.net
5 Harry S. Truman Parkway 
Annapolis, MD 21401 
V: 410-222-7371 
F: 410-222-7069

-----Original Message-----
From: 	Jeremy Foster [mailto:agjf1 at nsh.library.ns.ca] 
Sent:	Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:29 AM
To:	Multiple recipients of list
Subject:	[WEB4LIB] Re: Fonts & CSS

Thank-you to everyone for their views on this.
Possibly I was reading this line wrong when I was going over guidelines:
"Note that conformance to this checkpoint is important even though Priority
2 Checkpoints 3.1 and 3.3 suggest implementing a stylesheet. Note that
conformance to this checkpoint also may require you to violate the Priority
2 Checkpoint 11.2 which advises avoiding old features such as FONT."
I am not trying to force fonts on anyone :-) just want to be able to define
a base font , that will work with most of our users and still be accessable
friendly.
I had planned on using the H1 - H6 tags to headline the sections but the
problem with this is not all formatted text needs to stand out so much if
CSS is not supported.
Once again thank you for your input, I have the information I required.

Jeremy Foster
HRL Webmaster
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