Magnus W wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vadim Plessky) wrote in
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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> >| Then maybe they should run their CSS thorough a validator to check
> >| that they've done everything correctly.
> >
> > question is who will pay developer for it.
>
> A developer not checking for it would happen to be a very bad developer.
>
> > Real life is that it's not cost effective to "tune" web site to
>
> Real life is that it is quite trivial for a good coder to write code that
> works in every browser -- when the feature is supported in the specific
> browser.
>
> > non-standard browser(s)
>
> You have got it backwards. The standard is defined by w3c. IE does not
> follow those standards. The fact that millions of people are using a
> broken browser does not justify coding in broken ways.
Magnus,
Thanks for your input. I've given up on trying to change people's minds on
this. IE, I feel, has done a disservice because it lets people get away with
bad coding and because of its wide acceptance they come to believe that is the
way things should be.