Sam, > Why should the developers of any good web browser stoop to condescend > to comply with the psuedo-standards of some rogue software producer > and web page developer such as Micro$oft?
They shouldn't. Opera is stricter than MSIE browser. I can only assume that MS page authoring tools are designed to work with their browser, since I author my pages with a text editor. > Whenever I try to compile some C language source code with my Turbo C > compiler, my compiler will flag bad code as an error. That is because > Turbo C is a good compiler and it conforms to accepted standards. > Similarly, when you are trying to render an M$ web page with a good > browser, your browser should flag the bad HTML and and poorly written > scripts encountered on M$ web pages as errors. Heh. I think that your comparison here is a little unreasonable, especially at the level of HTML. A little flexibility in reading errored pages is not all bad. Compilers have to be a heck of a lot more exacting than HTML authoring tools, since they are building executables that will have direct access to memory, whereas bad HTML cannot crash your computer. Also, choosing C as an example was probably a worse choice than say, Java, since the C compiler will let you over-write your memory allocations with impunity, and do all sorts of other disasterous stuff, as I have learned myself.<g> It is pretty funny, how many messed up scripts there are on the Web, though. My debugger detects them and goes off while I am surfing, asking me if I want to debug. -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ to master others is nothing. to master yourself is something. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
