At 1:25 pm +1030 30/11/05, Andre Duszynski wrote:
More on web browser standards compliance:
<http://www.webstandards.org/about/>
<http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/guide.html>
The newer versions of Safari are getting there (Acid2),
interestingly Firefox (v1.5 RC3) fails Acid2...
In my experience, more sites fall over with Safari than Firefox than
IE. Standards compliance is a losing battle unless someone with guts
and heft is prepared to enforce compliance. Same problem in medical
IT world. No signs yet of any guts.
Disney Blast (once a good pay kids site) used to happily support
Win/Mac, but now many new features only support PC and will not run
at all on Mac. Progress.........
Ian : (
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Peter Machell wrote:
Bruce Jenkins wrote:
Have Microsoft won the HTML standards war?
No, there was a browser war but never a HTML standards one.
The html standards are spelled out in plain english - see
http://www.w3.org/ .
Neither IE or Netscape were ever good at sticking to the standards.
Firefox is much more complient.
Does it matter when the
software is "free"?
Yes it does (matter). I should be free to use whatever browser on
whatever platform or device I choose to access any website - that's
why we have standards. Internet Explorer is not free, it's part of
a commercial operating system.
Peter.
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