Brice Prairie Conservation Association

Design, Coding and Applicable Standards

This site strives to meet international standards for coding, structure and accessibility for persons with disabilities. Site design goals include:

• Maximize available screen real estate: flexibly and readably shrink and expand pages to varying screen widths, even if very wide screen. BlueRobot's Flanking Menu Page was especially helpful in achieving a fluid 3-column header in CSS.
• Standards compliant to W3C XHTML, CSS and accessibility standards
• NO browser sniffing, server-side includes, java or other scripts or other "gadget" fluff that tends to break pages
• Pages are hand coded for lean, optimal code (NO wysiwyg editors)
• Allow user to control font size zooming, with readable results
• HTML pre-processor used to simplify page maintenance (I use GTML)
• Standards-compliant CSS stylesheets used exclusively throught. Attempts to gracefully accomodate Netscape Navigator 4.x and other older, legacy non-standards-compliant browsers. Attempts to steer clear of box model issues with Microsofts bungled implementation in IE5 etc without hacks.
• Browser compliance testing includes:
  • Mozilla Firefox 0.8, 0.9, 1.0
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
  • Netscape Navigator 7.2
  • Netscape Navigator 4.8, 4.7: not standards-compliant. Fall back to a very simple version of the stylesheet.
  • Opera 7.54
  • Gnome/Mozilla Epiphany 1.0.7
  • KDE Konqueror 3.2.0
  • Mozilla 1.6
  ongoing....

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