Bad Sites

I am the chair of the HTML Working Group. This is the group responsible for designing the new versions of HTML.

International: never sleeps. I am English, in NL, we have Germans, Swedes, American W, C, E, Japanese. There is only 1 hour in the day when we can all phone to discuss.

So it won't suprise you to know that I tend to surf the web with the latest of the latest browsers. In general these are better than the existing browsers because they follow the standards more carefully.

Hwoever, this tends to make me very aware of how many sites are inaccessible to anything but the standard browsers on a standard configuration.

There are three types of inaccessible sites:

800x600 etc

The fault of graphic designers who don't understand 'fluid design'. Hopwfully this will get better. Worst example VVV.

2. Some feature doesn't work

Bad programming. E.g. KLM.

3. Explicitly kept out.

Understandable maybe that MS keeps other browsers out. But why NS?

There are many who think that the browser war is over, but in fact it is just a lull. There are dozens of new browsers being introduced. AOL owns Netscape, and if it decides to switch to NS for its ISP work ...