S�ren Kuklau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 22 Feb 2002:
> Not quite. It is on place three on an inofficial CSS 2 test suite: > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/css2tests/ > > MSIE Win is still way behind. It's obvious Roland is not looking for a web browser. He wants a mind reading program that will read his thoughts and render them appropriately. Why bother with standards, anyway, right? Here's why: Standards define how things work. I know for a fact that, even though 100's of record labels make CDs, if I buy a CD it will play in my CD player. Why? Cause it's a standardized thing. All CDs should be compatible with all CD players. What IE does is take some regular CDs, and a few squared CDs that you have to put in upside down to play. Ok, fine, right? But since a square CD that gets played upside down is *not* a standard thing, it may change. Next time Microsoft makes their CD player, it may no longer take those CDs. Why anyone would bother designing a site that does *not* work off standards is beyond me. Standards guarentee I will only have to make my site one time. If I put it up tomorrow, 10 years from now when we have XHTML 4.5 and DOM8 or something, my lowly little page laid out with standards complient CSS and javascript calls will *still* work in browsers. Why? Because browsers (good ones) are built to be backwards compatible to standards. If I build my page with dumb things like document.all/layers, or style= zoom:50%, then at some point browsers will either support the standard (in some other, W3C complient and approved way), or they will cease to implement it, in which case I have to redo my whole site because the quirks of the leading browser at the time no longer matter. Standards, however, will always be around. If anyone complains about a standards complient site not working in a particular browser, you can simply say "Sorry, my site is standards complient. I suggest you upgrade to a standards complient browser in order to view my site." End of story. They can't argue it. -- AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
