Strictly speaking…
I have never been all that sure about using XHTML Strict for anything as long as DW did not support it. Why? Because you start of strict but as soon as you hand over the page to someone else there is no way to ensure it stays that way. Transitional languages are better suited for that scenerio. When my co-op student from term needed a way to learn CSS I told him to make a pure CSS UW home page .. and he did.
Today (until around 12pm) the current UW home page was XHTML strict and standard CSS. There are, however, some limitations:
- The left nav is not ‘clickable’ in text mode
- The search form is not accessible
- IE 5.1 on OS X has some issues
We were trying it out until we got complaints, which I was certain it would happen by noon and it did. But it is an attempt to make the UW home page accessible without changing the design – which I am not entirely sure is possible.
The page can be found:
http://www.uwaterloo.ca/indexstrict.html
The first problem that was noticeable was the drop down navigation, it failed in IE 6. But what else is there? Other than the drop downs, was there anything else wrong with it? I am wondering if anyone can duplicate the IE 5.1 on OS X issues?
