"Piroumian, Konstantin" wrote:
>
> Standarts are made to be supported, otherwise they are useless. The reality
> is that IE is leading browser and I don't believe that anybody will design
> his applications in standart, but less functional or simplified way, only
> because that is not a standart way.
Well, obviously you're not supporting the standards movement. That is
your choice, but if you're using standards-based, OpenSource software
for free, you should give something back. You are under no obligation to
do that, but I would expect from OpenSource users that they do not
actively help MS perverting standards.
> I don't like Microsoft either and that's why I don't use IIS or other
> Microsoft technologies that I can avoid, but I can't avoid using IE and
> developing for IE, because it's impossible now. I think, that the same
> situation is everywhere.
Today you say you can't avoid developing for IE. If everyone thinks like
that, then tomorrow you won't be able to avoid using IIS. Don't you see
where that leads? Haven't you heard about the smart tags in the next
Internet Explorer? MS is trying to take over the Web, plain and simple.
Are you suggesting the Web developers code around the smart tags by
intentionally mis-spelling words, so IE doesn't recognize them anymore,
but human users will? Then the next version of IE will contain a
dictionary of mis-spelled words. Then we're not only in a coding-war,
but also in a spelling-war with MS. Plus all the users of
standards-compliant browsers would have to read intentionally
mis-spelled words, even though their browser would correctly render the
words, if they were spelled correctly.
If you are suggesting we should ignore HTTP to accomodate IE, then that
is the same thing as if you were suggesting we ignore the dictionary and
spell all words differently to avoid smart tags. The dictionary is the
law of spelling and HTTP is the law of the Web. Working around either
one is the bad guy's way - don't be a bad guy!
> According to your advice, we have to tell our users to use Netscape (or so)
> if they want to get a PDF document. But often people don't have any browser
> other than IE.
Then they have to get one. There are so many browsers out there that
there really is no reason to use IE.
Ulrich
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Ulrich Mayring
DENIC eG, Systementwicklung
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