RE: FN-FORUM: Next Generation web standards site

date posted 6th August 2004 15:19

Depends how you go about it.

It's next generation compared to using frontpage to lash up some god
awful table kludge design with big comic sans headings...

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Karl
Bunyan
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 2:36 PM
To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Next Generation web standards site


It's good to see some thought put into a site build, especially on a
high profile site, but using XSLT to turn XML into XHTML and adding some
CSS doesn't seem next generation, or am I missing something?

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Tony

> Crockford
> Sent: 06 August 2004 13:32
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM: Next Generation web standards site
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> This, for the technically inclined, is very interesting:
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> from http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/wwf.html:
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> " it is safe to say that the project involved some interesting=20
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> The store has been developed using the Karova Store platform,=20
> integrated with Dydacomp's MOM software, already in use by Internet=20
> Logistics. This combination is the first of it's kind in being built=20
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> XHTML through XSLT."
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> about:
> http://shop.wwf.org.uk/store/Home.aspx
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> Nice.


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