----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t@comcast.net>
To: "'Webmaster'" <webmaster@tentec.com>; <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 05:42
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec Website
> Hmmm ...
>
> I probably spoke too soon. Even at 1024x768 some pages don't work, I
> suppose because of the style sheet and tables issue.
>
> This isn't a dis ... But ... Especially for a commercial site, it ought to
> work perfectly on the most used browser platform .. You can call it lowest
> common denominator, and blame the browser, but that doesn't help the
> appearance of the page(s). Committee standards and what users have in
their
> hands are almost always out of time sync. Some users may appreciate
> adherence to documented standards. Most just want it to look right on the
These are TT standards?
> platform they use every day. For example, even at 1024x768, the page
> http://radio.tentec.com/Amateur/Transceivers/TT565 displays incorrectly
on
> IE, pushing the left hand search window and links to the bottom of the
page.
> To the average user who could care less what standards are or are not
> supported, it will just look like someone screwed up the web page design.
A possibility ? Have you looked at the source ?
>
> Just a suggestion for perhaps the next rev level, even though you didn't
> really ask. Hey, T-T fans constantly want to out engineer the design
> engineers, and that just extends to everything :-)
In any event, it is tremendously better than the old stuff.
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Grant Youngman [mailto:nq5t@comcast.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:23 PM
> > To: 'Webmaster'; 'tentec@contesting.com'
> > Subject: RE: RE: Ten-Tec Website
> >
> > > comes to standards. For example is the error you see on the
> > site in IE
> > > where the left menu and the content overlap is that the site use
> > > Cascade Style Sheets to control the layout of the site, and
> > IE dosen't
> > > fully support CSS (Cascade Style
> > > Sheets) yet so it puts Tables a Priority.
> >
> > > Sorry if this upsets you in anyway.
> > >
> > > Thank You,
> > > Ten-Tec Web Team
> >
> > I'm not really upset at all.
> >
> > And mostly retract my rant, having finally seen the
> > recommendation for 1024x728 resolution. The site looked
> > really ugly -- almost childish, based on the errors in its
> > display appearance -- on the system at the office I was using
> > today, but the machines there are stuck at 800x600 by office
> > policy. That turned out to be the primary "stupid factor" in
> > the whole thing :-)
> >
> > On a 1024x786 display it looks fine.
> >
> > Overall, it's a great improvement, and looks good as long the
> > resolution is right.
> >
> > Grant/NQ5T
> >
> >
>
>
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