On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Alon Altman wrote:

> > If a site cannot be reached from non-IE browser it's poorly-built. A
> > standarts-compliant site should work with any browser. It should even
> > need to check for the browser's maker.
>
>   You mean that a standards-compliant site should NOT check the browser
> maker. According to standards, the only reason to check the browser is to
> add special non-standard support for legacy browsers (such as NS4). There
> are ways to bypass even this using @import and other CSS techniques.

Standard-compliant site builders may have been able to fully use such an
approach has there been fully-standard-compliant browsers. But the current
browsers still have many little bugs that have to be worked aroundif your
code stumbles accross one of them.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
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