• Be informative


• Prove the worth and usefulness of 68k Macs as still beingf viable platforms


• Be a gateway for those surfing on 68k Macs


• Look good and be usable on both modern and vintage equipment, regardless of system architechture, OS, or browser

To acheive these goals, serveral design and coding techniques must be utilized:

• all code must be HTML 3.2 complant


• code on any text-only pages must be HTML 2.0 compliant


• ALL tags that can be paired with a closeing tag will be. ie [code] <p> foo bar baz </p>


• HTML will be treated as case sensitive


• all images will be as small in file size as possible, and use the standard WWW 215 colour pallete


• all Images will be paired with descriptive ALT tags


• NO FRAMES


• all pages will be tested in multiple browsers and on a full sampling of colour depths


• No distinctions shall be made between accepted Elnglish spellings of words, and variances of grammar. Color, colour, realise, and realize are all permissable. Talk like Yoda you will not, but one may otherwise write as one deems appropriate


• The web page editors reserve the right to ask for changes, correct factual errors, spelling, grammar, and confounding syntax.

With that, we again as for CONTENT. Anything you still can't cope with is therefor your own problem.

~Chaplain Marchie

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code on any text-only pages must be HTML 2.0 compliant

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all images will be as small in file size as possible, and use the standard WWW 215 colour pallete

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{ candyPunk }
{ Captain of Observation, 68k MLA }
{ 68k Macs liberated: 3}
{ My baby: Q660av }

~Coxy is often on a PC.

And more importantly, as promoters of Mac Liberation, our call goes out to ALL people. Why can't someone who has only used WIndows not Liberate a Quadra 630, and use it, especially if it has a DOS card?

Secondly, remeber that we want images to be useable across multiple browsers, and if you are surfing in Cyberdog, you hope and pray the page author used the Web Safe colours.

Third, GIFs are bad and I oppose their use. The method to produce GIF images is a proprietary and coptrighted algorithm, and the company in the last few years has taken to sueing anyone that uses GIFs on webpages for the liscense fee of $5000.

more info can be found at http://www.tuxedo.org/%7Eesr/html%2Dhell.html which I have linked to before.

Lastly: I'm working on finding pages that check for HTML validity, according to version. If nothing else is found, I'll have to check by hand (or rather, write a script to check).

~Chaplain Marchie

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Web safe colors: used when you want your (gif, mainly) images to retain appearance across platforms. When is our page going to be viewed on a PC, and are those few instances worth the huge loss in image quality? We can't make everything a gif! If we want any type of image past a banner or button, it will look like crap.

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/me runs away

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I usually surf the forums on my G4, running OS X, useing Internet Explorer (only untill the Mozilla builds work right)

No, my system doesn;t care if WebSafe colours are used.

But my Quadra 630, and SE/30... They WILL Care.

Our desire for our page to be a portal for 68k Mac websurfers demands web safe colours.

All the pages I create will be in Web Safe greyscale.

<Slight Rant>
I remember surfing the internet before the WWW existed (1994). I tunneled through useing telnet, ft, and gopher. I chatted on my local User Groups BBS.

I have seen (with the eyes of an adolecent, into young adulthood) the Internet change. In many ways, I am happy, but there are many things that make me want to scream.

First, is the increased commercialization of the web. Yes, there is a place on the web for the commercial, but it increasingly chokes out and makes harder to find, the USEFUL stuff: The educational, the scientific, the stuff the Internet was built upon.

Second, is how people have forgotten that HTML is not meant to DESIGN a page. HTML was never intended to provide a method to ensure that your page looked Just So on someones computer. It was created and intended to be a tool thats lets you define STRUCTURE.

The fact is, no matter how much is added to the HTML language, your page will always look different on different peoples computers, based upon such things as Browser, monitor resolution, colour depth, even Operating System (remember... 12 point Text on a Mac is 12 pixels tall. On WIndows it's 16).

The web should be usable by people of all languages. This means Image Maps are a No-No.

the Blind use the web as well. They must be remembered.

The Spirit of the Internet tells us that ALL people must have free and unfettered access. When the author of a page forgets this, his page is rendered worthless.

HTML allows Function before Form, by letting the page author design Structure. Those who read a site do so for the content, not a fancy presentation.

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~Chaplain Marchie

thanks for the lessons, marchie.
jt: newbie

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I'm on a PC.

/me runs away

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Macs liberated: 4-5

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68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 5

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