Devedge Revamped

[ahosang]

Don't know where moderator thinks this should go, but it's just an announcement for those who may struggle with the netscape old docs site, which wasn't that good. Also, for those who want all the references, DOM(or links to references in one place)They've revamped devedge.netscape.com and give a small tutorial on XSLT transforms and some other demos. I haven't explored the whole thing yet, but it seems a good site

[brothercake]

It's a good site, but they're making very bold claims which aren't substantiated by what they've actually done -

They claim accessibility features, yet the text-resizing doesn't work without javascript, which makes it little better than a gimmick. They should be using scaleable fonts, and could have done a lot better with user styles - they have a handful of very similair presets, which are cute, but they give no accessibility benefit at all; for example - all the presets are small black text on a white background.

The fact that the borders and columns don't line up properly in IE6 is probably bye the bye for gecko developers ... and it didn't bother me either, but it's symptomatic of something which (IMO) is incredibly important for any site which presents itself as a "showcase" or "best practise" example for other developers, the way DevEdge does. And that is -

Most of us earn our money from making sites for other people; we makes sites for people to whom how cool it looks is more important than accessibility and compliance; a showcase should demonstrate how both of these things are possible at the same time. DevEdge does not do this, because it looks very plain and unbranded; for this reason, as well as the accessibility problems, it is not a good showcase.

The best site I've seen recently is http://www.rspb.org.uk

[ahosang]

I guess the programmer in me values the code samples and doc links(which I already had anyway) more than the look. But then I'm not a professional web designer :-)
Good to hear your comments though as a critique. In the XSLT section, they give out code with .xsl extension. Didn't jkd say that the stylesheet should still have .xml extension?? I haven't been doing any XML lately.

[brothercake]

I believe so. AFAIK text/xsl is a myth - really there's no such thing. Stands to reason, since XSL is written in XML.

[jkd]

Extensions don't matter. I commonly give my xslt files .xsl extensions - I just make sure to have a

AddType text/xml .xsl

somewhere in a .htaccess. :)