On 07/15/2009 12:21 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:38 PM, NoOp<[email protected]> wrote: >> Something has been changed between the versions to >> ignore/correct/quietly handle, etc., the page code problems. So, I guess >> that Mozilla has decided to go the "incompetence and laziness is >> rewarded" route in your opinion? > > Warning: extreme fence-riding below :) > > As a user, the browser that lets me do what I'm trying to do no matter > how the page is composed is more valuable. As a web developer, the > browser that refuses to do anything with invalid content is more > valuable. In a perfect world, the latter would render the former > unnecessary because nobody would make bad web pages. I don't know what > the mission of the Seamonkey and Firefox projects are and what their > official stance is when it comes to displaying broken web pages, but I > suspect they lean toward the user's side of things. (Especially when > the "competition" is MSIE, which is the notorious king of allowing > anyone to do any crazy thing on a web page and still render it in a > way that looks normal) > > I think the increasing ability of Firefox to display malformed web > pages probably contributes to its usefulness by users, but could also > lead to incompetence and laziness by web developers, just as MSIE has > done and continues to do. Of course some of the theoretical web > developers that I accuse of being lazy or incompetent might say that > not having to "worry" about writing valid HTML contributes to their > efficiency and their paycheck. :) > > To get back to the OP's problem, whether this particular page > rendering weirdly is the fault of a Seamonkey bug or the web page I > have no idea, but I don't think the page can be ruled out as a suspect > until its XHTML is fixed. I don't think I've ever seen a page with > valid HTML that rendered so badly in Seamonkey (but of course that > doesn't mean it's not possible).
Can't argue with any of that... but it sure is nice (from a user perspective) to be able to render web pages in SM 2.0x in the same manner as Fx 3.5 :-) _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
