At 11:27 PM -0700 5/28/98, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
>I found, when putting together this little snippet of code that there are
>some obvious discrepancies between what will cause an error on one browser,
>but not another. To my surprise, I found MSIE 4 to require less specific
>code to get the job done...I had to add document. in front of form elements
>for NS.
No surprise here. I had students completely screw up tables on their
mid-terms and MSIE rendered them "correctly."
Now - is this a "good" thing or a "bad" thing - for the browser to look at
your code and "interpret" what it thinks you are saying. At the very least,
it makes it possible to code differently for different browsers (ie, not
code to spec) -- which *I* think is a bad thing.
Kathy
(who is really tired of MS products anticipating what I want to do -- like
refusing to easily let me un-capitalize a word that follows a .... )
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