I would like to say a few words about $SUBJECT.. As you know, in many companies (be it Egged, government offices, etc) they place a bid for a 3rd party company to build them a site according to specs given by the company.
As my previous boss in Tehila told me: "Hetz, there are 2 ways to choose from: 1. A repsectable company who will build the site with PHP, MySQL and will fully check that their web site will work on various browsers - those companies ask for X*2 price 2. A small company who will build the site on IIS, with ASP and will only check it against latest version of Explorer - they will ask for X price.." Guess who wins the bid? There are also 2 ways of browsers: 1. Konqueror, Opera - these browser do whatever they can to support what Opera's CEO calls "streets HTML" - which means either non standard HTML or buggy behaviors - both browsers support those kind of HTML in addition to the W3C standards - that way you can browse many problematic sites. 2. Mozilla and browsers based on Gecko - those browsers stick to the W3C standard, so when you approach a site which doesn't support the standard well enough - you'll get either bad rendering or you won't be able to use the sites. Financially speaking - writing a web site and maintaining it work with the latest variant browsers is a PITA. You got tons of quirks to do in order to make the site look good on MSIE and Mozilla, and that part alone sometimes costs more then maintaining 1 browsers - and companies don't want to pay for it - they are fine with Explorer... Just for a kick - try to take the google web site and pass it through the W3C validator. It fails. Many people have asked Google about it and they simply refuse to make it fully W3C compatible. Do you want to boycott Google? good luck, I won't be one of the participants... So yes, you can complain to the webmasters of those web sites (start with Egged, Bank Discount, Globes, Ynet, etc) - see how much they are willing to make their web site work in Mozilla - not much, although THERE IS hope - look at the Visa CAL case for example. Thanks, Hetz ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
