I believe that Joe is right: the JSP/Servlet spec is a server-side spec, and the servers serve (forgive the pun) the browser community. A spec that actually excludes even 1% of the browsers is suspect, IMHO. (And I'm not sure I believe that the JSP/Servlet spec could possibly be the culprit -- surely the culprit here is some optional behavior of Tomcat, since other implementations of the same spec work dandy on other web/Servlet servers.)
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Laffey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 8:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: IE 5 on Mac is incompatible with TC 4? On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Randy Layman wrote: > > I haven't been following this thread but it seems like you are > saying that Tomcat should be modified to work correctly with IE 5. The > problem with that is that Tomcat is an reference implementation of a > particular spec (JSP/Servlet) which dictates how things have to work - it is > the reference by which all others are implemented. It can't change to > accommodate bugs or "special features" of client software. > Who cares if it's a "reference implementation?" If it doesn't work with current mainstream browsers then it is useless. No company running a ecommerce site wants to alienate all Mac IE5 users. It would be idiotic, not mention bad business. Tomcat must work with all current mainstream browsers (at least NS and IE) on all all major platforms for it to be useful. Typical sers do not upgrade their browsers. So everything else must be upgraded to work with them, bugs and all. My $0.02 -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
