"Geoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> But ... proprietory or not, standard or not, IE supports them

No, does not.

> (or at least it can render the pages I mentioned)

Yes: These pages have a javascript routine to "detect" the browser. They
usually check for availability of the object "document.all" - only IE (to my
knowledge) has this, so they "think" it is IE then. And then they assume "if
it's not IE, it must be Netscape!", so they do the other code with
document.layers stuff, which only Netscape 4 understands.

> .. so is there any reason why Moz cannot or should not do so if the
necessary code is included?  Would it break Moz to do that?  Is the coding
exercise so
> difficult?

No, but the strict aim of standards compliance as far as possible (there are
very few things not being standards compliant in Mozilla, such as some CSS
attributes) was done to convince people to standards and away from
proprietary extensions of browsers. The less Mozilla is standards compliant,
the less it can convince people.

> I am sorry if I am talking nonsense here, it is just that, if I am, I
would like to understand why.

You aren't talking nonsense. I'm glad to help you understand this problem.

Regards,
S�ren Kuklau



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