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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:12:59 +0930

Re: linuxsa-digest Digest V2001 #559

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:58:29AM +0930, Andrew Reid wrote:

 > Internet Explorer is a bit of a cretin, really. It says "Yeah, we'll
 > render everything Netscape does, but we'll make sure Netscape can't
 > render half of our 'special enhancements' as they don't conform to any
 > standards recognised by the appropriate authorities. There's nothing you
 > can do about it 'coz we're Microsoft".
 
Netscape does the same thing.  They started visiting hellacious fury
on us when they invented the <BLINK> tag, and it hasn't really stopped
since.

[ I'm wondering about people with HTML mail readers, and whether the
  rest of this message will be flashing because of the tag in my last
  paragraph :-) ]

Other companies buy into the rot, and you end up with a world wide 
web which doesn't work on half the browsers out there, with the web 
developer having no idea why things aren't working properly.  For example,
if you design a site with DreamWeaver, and use the DreamWeaver support
for pop-up menus, your site won't render correctly on a HTML/4.0 compliant
browser because DreamWeaver emits code specific for Netscape and IE
extensions.  To whit:  http://www.savingsloans.com.au , where I am
totally unable to use their online banking facility with Mozilla and
Opera, because some outsourced web developer somewhere chose to use
DreamWeaver to implement the site.  Bah!

     - mark
       [ </BLINK> :-) ]

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