I tend to agree that it is going to be a hard fight with lazy developers and
ignorant
web surfers, but for Mozilla to give in because of those people's failings is
not the
answer. The web is a mess right now and we should take a stand to get it
cleaned
up. Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition still has lots of baggage carried
from
years of doing a hack job of backward compliance; because of that, Windows ME
is not much better than Windows 95. To make large strides of improvement, you
have to make sacrifices and suffer a bit. Microsoft is unwilling to willingly
suffer
for the greater good. Let's have Mozilla and Netscape be more noble than that.
When is AOL's software going to include the Netscape browser? Whenever that
happens, many ignorant web surfers (and I mean ignorant in the kindest way)
will
quickly switch to standards compliance.
Mark Bitterling
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daniel Veditz wrote:
> Gervase Markham wrote:
> >
> > You can write a standards-compliant code path that works in Netscape 6 and
> > IE 5. There's all sorts of migration guides (Eric Krock's, for one.)
>
> The simple addition of document.all support in quirk-mode would unbreak lots
> of pages. Without special-casing developers can write for IE4+IE5 using
> document.all *or* IE5+Gecko using "standards". Of the two, which do you
> think a ton of current web pages use? What do you think the likelyhood that
> these pages will be re-written to work in Gecko when they appear to work on
> 80% of the browsers already? How fast do you think IE4 is going to
> disappear?
>
> "Not speaking on behalf of my employer, who certainly disagrees with me on
> this point in particular."
>
> -Dan Veditz
