I thought the whole idea about standard compatibility was about. was so
that if a person developed a page according to specs it would look
exactly In Netscape, Mozilla, IE, or any other browser and on any
platform PC, Unix, Mac, BEOS, Amiaga, whatever. The only deferences
being proportioned according to Monitor screen size screen resolution?

"Eyes to the Skies." wrote:
> 
> Marc Leger wrote:
> >
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are no details in the W3C's HTML spec
> > > that define exactly how a textbox is suppose to look, as long as they
> > > function as they are suppose to. This has nothing to do with standards
> > > simply because one doesn't exact for textboxes.
> >
> > You are correct.  So I'll ask it as simple as possible:
> >
> > Why does Netscape/Mozilla render textboxes different than IE?
> 
> Browsers are free to render them as the programmers wish them to. There
> is no standard on how they should be styled.
> 
> Frankly I'm finding it a little irritating that people seem to assume
> that if it isn't done how IE does it, than it isn't right.
> 
> Very irritating actually.
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