smorgan wrote: >> By implementing quirks mode, Gecko the net effect is an >> /increase/ in demand for standards-compliant pages (this was Gerv's point). >> >> Camino's UA string change would also increase the Camino's user-base. >> But it /encourages/ webmasters to not check for Camino since even if >> Camino's user base increased, there would be no reason to not continue >> checking for "Firefox." > > This is exactly the double-standard I was trying to highlight, even > more succinctly stated. You are saying that being tolerant of people > doing the wrong thing discourages people from doing the wrong thing > when Firefox does it, but encourages people to do the wrong thing when > Camino does it.
Well, those aren't the words I would use -- there is no "double-standard." At some point, people considered the existence of quirks mode and concluded that it would be good for a set of reasons that are mostly unrelated to the current user-agent issue. Are you actually disputing that claim or just saying "it's not fair!"? And Camino is doing quirks too. It's not Firefox vs. Camino here as far as quirks go. -- Andrew Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sens.buffalo.edu/~ajs42/ _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
