"S.Toms" wrote:
>
> Microsoft tends to do things the way they want to do them instead of
> always sticking with the standards. There are hundreds of pages out
> there that will crash Netscape/Lynx and some others due to the fact that
> MS has implemented there own features that arn't compatible with other
> browsers, like the ActiveX crap, looks pretty, but its not compatible.
> My guess is that the contents of that page being ActiveX are somehow
> killing Lynx which was launched by pine therefore killing pine as well.
> If your interested in viewing the story, I can post you (privately) the
> contents in text form. Or you can try another browser temporarily.
>
I think it may be a pine problem as I was able to load the URL fine
with Lynx.
ActiveX is an extension (or new feature) of HTML and as such should be
ignored by any browser that can't handle it. This feature of browsers
ignoring things they don't understand is what allows new versions of
HTML to continue to work with older browsers.
Mind you, I'm not saying MS doesn't break standards. They do (as do
Netscape) but I just feel ActiveX is not an example of this.
--
Steve Crane
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