Website and Graphic Design
Website and Graphic Design
This article was first published on October 4, 1998.
It is becoming even easier to introduce digital discrimination into Web page design. As more pages utilise the combination of the latest HTML, JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets, sometimes known as Dynamic HTML (dHTML), more pages on the World Wide Web become inaccessible to older Web Browser software. Perhaps "inaccessible" is not quite the right word, "incompatible" is more accurate, but having incompatible pages often leads to the content contained on those pages being inaccessible or unreadable. It is possible to make dHTML effects that would allow older browsers to view the content but the more effects added to a page the harder this becomes.
The NEW Direction site does have content that will only appear when using version 4 web browsers, yet the same page is used for all other browsers. However this isn't a good example of dHTML as this additional content is restricted because the technique used was an alternative to using Server Side Includes which I now know are possible to use on this Web Space (so I might use SSI more in the future)
January 7, 2009
