John Cartmell wrote:

I'm not a hobby web developer. I don't develop web sites at all.

Ok, that explains the ridiculous statements you've made.


I employ
professionals to produce advice. If you offer to produce a web site that
'looks the same' to all/most web browsers then you are a poor amateur.

Look, there really is no point in discussing this further. You clearly
have very little idea of what the market demands. Perhaps this is
because you're stuck in a horribly outdated RISC OS world, I don't know.

But either way, these days clients are very demanding. They want high
functionality sites, and they want high graphics sites. By their very
nature, high graphics sites rely on pixel perfect positioning of some
elements relative to others. If this isn't achieved, things don't line
up correctly and the site looks crap. This means that you *have* to
build your sites to look the same across different browsers/platforms,
and that takes way more than a pass through with a validator.


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Grunff