On 2/18/2010 7:00 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > > The original vision of HTML was that the page would be coded to a > standard and the various browsers would render it as their programmers > and users thought best. But what we have now is a world in which certain > browser publishers have enough weight in the marketplace that webmasters > intentionally write nonstandard code for them, and that forces other > browsers to devise ways of coping with these noncompliant pages. > > I would be perfectly satisfied with a world in which multiple browsers > competed for market share but websites were coded to W3C standards. That > would be a level playing field and the best browser(s) would win. > > And anyway, how is writing a single version of compliant code not > "accommodating all browsers"? Are some browsers unable to display > compliant pages? >
Various surveys now indicate that IE and Firefox are tied in terms of usage. Some surveys even indicate that Firefox now has a larger share of the browser market than IE. Too many managers lack technical experience. Far too readily, they accept the concept that, if Micro$oft says "It's okay", then it must indeed be okay. They provide Micro$oft tools to their staff for generating Web pages. They believe that, if a Web page looks as intended with Internet Explorer, it looks okay to the entire world. They do not realize that they have tied their Internet presence to a browser with a steadily declining market share, to a "fading star". -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
