> If you've been to mozillazine.org lately, you'll notice that they tell > you that Internet Explorer and Netscape 4.xx will not render the site > properly because of their "poor CSS capabilities", heck, even Opera, > which is nearly as standards-compliant as Mozilla/Netscape 6.x itself > does a terrible job rendering their pages.
Yes. > The only browser that can render it correctly, is a Mozilla or > Mozilla-based browser. So far so good. > Oh yes, they say, this is because of Mozilla's superior > standards-compliance... Yes. > Right, well, a friend of mine looked over the page and found that they > "browser-sniff", and if it doesn't detect you using Mozilla or Netscape > 6.xx, or the like, it simply directs your browser to a non-existent CSS > file, IE.css I believe it was, now he was able to 'repair" the page and > load it in Internet Explorer and Opera perfectly by modifying the page > source so that IE and Opera could load the existent Mozilla.css. I'd love to see this friend of yours page. We tried 10+ different ways to get IE to layout the page the same as Mozilla did. The reason we point to a different style sheet for IE, is because we plan to add one. IE does not layout the page properly, unless you are talking about IE on the mac, which I never had a chance to test. > So what gives? > > Well, it appears that mozillazine.org is using a simple deception that > will fool most users into thinking that no other browser is as > advanced/capable as Mozilla, if this were true however, they would > simply need to write the pages in standards that IE and Opera simply > don't support and let them really FUBAR the page on their own, but as > is, they must sabotage it so that other browsers cannot render it > correctly. We are not deceiving anyone. IE does not support the CSS2 properties that we are using. Go look at MSDN for yourself. Then go look at our talkback on this very subject and read the posts from when we made the switch, and gave the same style sheet for everyone. > Now, believe me, I hate Internet Explorer with a passion, but come on, > if Mozillazine.org is doing this deliberately, then that really says > something about them, and it gives Mozilla a bad name. We are doing this deliberately. We will have an IE style sheet up soon that hopefully makes the site look better. > If you are as outraged by this as I am, then please E-Mail >s [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them to stop this. Sure thing chief. > Thank you, > > Ryan Davis >
