IE is a de facto standard. Mozilla does not, for example, support SVG nor does it appear likely to in the future. Nor does Opera. The nicest open source platform around, Mac OS X, supports a particularly effective IE. I don't think anyone would nominate me as an apologist for M$, but Mac OS X has changed the landscape considerably. Considerably. My point is that "really bad decision" may be a shade hyperbolic particularly in the context of a working open source medical application, examples of which I see very few of.
At 05:36 AM 5/3/02, Adrian Midgley wrote: >On Friday 03 May 2002 02:40, Dr. David H Chan wrote: > > Our programmers took the easy way out! It seems that IE6 is probably > > closest to the W3C spec (I am sure I'll generate a few comments here ;-). > > Anyways, that's the way it is now. To make it Netscape compatible will be > > the job of you guys who is much smarter than we are here! > >Opera is probably closest, and Mozilla is the one that is most likely to >_remain_ close to a spec. Depending on IE was a really bad decision, even if >this year it looks pragmatically expedient. > > > >-- > From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley >http://www.defoam.net/
