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From: L
Date: Jan 12, 2006 6:00AM

Patrick Lauke wrote:

"As developers we can obviously try to overcome any sort of problem at our end for the sake of "it's best for our users"...but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. So, should we avoid the fundamental discussions on the list, and simply accept that browsers will never work towards fulfilling the user's needs?"

One thing we should never do is avoid discussions, either onlist or anywhere else.

Until we find a solution for sustainable accessibility/usability/quality user experience, we must keep talking and exploring ideas.

I think that everybody has to do their bit. The technology vendors need to standardise code interpretation and make their interfaces more usable, site developers need to make their content more flexible and adaptable, and users need to better understand their technologies.

This might be slightly utopian, but it's the only way I can envisage things hanging together. Of course, there's an awful lot of work to be done in the meantime and for the moment it looks as though the developers are in the lead :-)

Regards,
Tink.