Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

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.


Fine, then fall back to the standard in case you don't recognize the browser. Any problems hereafter are the client's fault. This way your work load decreases as the browsers mature.

Besides, if you designed your site around the standards, and then made sucrifices because a given browser was not standard complient, you are probably not far from the standard anyways.

Shachar


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