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BGCOLOR only in Opera, not other browsers (valid page) Mason C 05-04-2008
Posted by steve on May 8, 2008, 12:30 am
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> And you need to be able to recognize useful content from crap (which
> sometimes _looks_ useful).
>
> A poster's name is usually informative. If it doesn't even look like
> anyone's real full name, the odds are that nothing in the message is real.

In my opinion the authenticity of a poster's name is not a valid indicator
of the usefulness of the post.

Far more relevant is the context from which the author is speaking. Some
posters are indeed experts and provide very accurate information about HTML
(or CSS, in the other group), yet move far beyond their scope of knowledge
and add unsolicited criticism and advice about design and UI decisions. Far
too often the advice is horrible, particularly when the OP's objective is
revenue or lead generation versus the newsgroup's seemingly pre-defined goal
of content delivery.

This is an interesting newsgroup to discuss theory, and perhaps learn best
practices for sites destined to serve a public interest. For the authors of
sites serving commercial interests, following the (technically accurate)
advice offered on this group is often a horrible idea. It's better to find
an online community that caters to webmasters working within a similar
context, in contrast to what is found here.



Posted by steve on May 7, 2008, 11:01 pm
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>>This group (and *.stylesheets) are worthwhile to browse and search through
>>previously answered posts, but that's it. It's not a place to ask
>>questions. You'll receive more commentary about your posting style
>>(particularly quoting styles, as you noted) and your failure to account
>>for
>>the entire Earth's population before one of the helpful posters comes
>>around. There are far better and efficient places to ask questions.
>
> Regarding html and css problems, please suggest some place.
>
> Mason C

Give http://www.codingforums.com/index.php a try. I've had positive
experiences there.

http://www.webmasterworld.com *was* probably the best, prior to it moving to
a subscription model. I've heard the occasional comment that it's still
worth it, but I can't claim to know much about the present paying community.
Still appears very active.



Posted by Stanimir Stamenkov on May 6, 2008, 4:25 am
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Mon, 05 May 2008 12:24:31 -0700, /Mason C/:

> OK, it's time to call everyone together and reveal that the butler did it.
>
> In Windows XP: Control Panel -- Accessibility Options -- [X] Use High Contrast
>
> It was checked in Chapter One, long ago, and we all missed it.
>
> I *always* use a good browser, Opera, which ignores that WinXP option.

How does not supporting/honoring certain OS feature makes Opera a
better browser? If you say Safari is better in the same regard - I
dislike pretty much the inability to set preferred languages when
requesting pages (the Accept-Language header) in Safari on Windows.
I've read Safari on Mac uses the system user preferences for this
purpose but on Windows it always defaults to English (as far as I've
observed).

--
Stanimir

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