"IE quirks"

Not to start an IE-Firefox war, but what I've noticed is that in IE, when I
want to move something to a place using CSS, it generally takes only the
code that I expect it to. In Firefox, I notice a lot of the time, that the
code that I would expect it to take to do a desired action is not what it
does at all, but something I don't expect it to do.  I had the same
experience with Javascript as well, between Netscape and IE.  However, I'm
told that IE does not conform to standards (not that I've ever found out how
myself).

Would I be correct in saying that MS (re)designs these standards to make
them easier and more intuitive to use, and this causes the mess?  What good
are standards if they aren't easy to use?  Why not make the future standards
based on the best available set?

I just don't get all of this...  people bitch so much about Microsoft, and
there are some good reasons, but isn't making life easier a good thing?  

- Matt Small

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:22 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: CSS

Ha! Some days I've really felt the same way. I consider myself fairly
well versed in CSS but I still can't always make it do what I want it
to. And if you spend a bit of time reading a lot of the CSS stuff out
there, the really advanced CSS folks will generally agree. They keep
longing for CSS3 and arguing about how something should be implemented
in that. Like CSS3 is ever going to see the light of day. Especially
when tools like Dreamweaver still give precedence to IE quirks.

-Kevin

On 4/14/05, Matthew Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've written a haiku about this:
> 
> CSS on web
> 
> Crazy fools have made you up
> 
> Death for programmers



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