On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:31:37 +0000, Christian Biesinger wrote: > Geoff wrote: > >> (1) Am I right in thinking that there is nothing that Moz could ever do >> to correct the bad sniffing problem? In other words, if a site sends >> stuff that is obviously intended for NS is there simply no way that Moz >> could default to NS behaviour - not even with a whole lot of extra >> code? > > > Well, if Mozilla can detect that the code is intended for NS4 (which is > not always possible) it would be possible for it to do what NS4 did. > (with quite a bit of extra code). > > HOWEVER, this is unlikely to happen - Mozilla does not support > proprietary extensions to standards (with very few exceptions). > > The reason for this is, I suppose, to make people use the standards; > which is a good thing, because standards are documented, proprietary > extensions not usually. > Thanks, and I can understand that. On the other hand, the version of English that I speak was once a fairly well documented standard, until a large number of US citizens came along and made it their (initially undocumented) own. I would look a little silly arguing against their usage now. I know that the analogy is imperfect, but you see what I mean.
Geoff
