Tim Churches wrote: > Peter Machell wrote: >> On 03/06/2007, at 8:41 PM, Oliver Frank wrote: >> >>> From previous discussions on this list, I understand that Firefox >>> conforms to international standards for Web browsers but that >>> Microsoft Internet Explorer does not. Is this still correct? >> No, it's just not that simple. MS claimed that IE7 is more standards >> compliant than Firefox at it's release date, but the CSS "support" in IE >> still means popular web pages should be coded twice. >> >> The simple truth is this: If you code a web site according to WC3 >> standards, it will look just fine in Firefox, Mozilla, Konqueror, Opera, >> Safari, Camino, Omniweb and yes, even Netscape, but to make it look good >> in IE you need to code it again. >> >> Anyone coding a site that works only in IE today is just lazy. They code >> it once and it works fine in everything but IE. Then, rather than make >> it work in all browsers, they hack it to bits to force it to work in IE.
My take is that a a "Web" application which only works with IE is not a Web application at all, it is a Microsoft Windows application. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
