Charles,

One thing I really liked about something you refer to.  I completely agree
that WE need to keep the pressure on them to continually improve.  Your
explanation was very good and probably actually a little more accurate than
was mine.

Thanks,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com

"Making database sites seem easy"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles A. Upsdell" <browser-news(at)upsdell.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Cc: <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: CSS in IE 6


>
> >IE has always been more forgiving of coding errors as a rule than some of
> >the other browsers.
>
> True
>
> >   Netscape, for instance, was less forgiving because it
> >more closely adhered to established standards.
>
> IE4 (and up) are more standards-compliant than NN4.  If you study the
> standards carefully, you will find that IE4 implements HTML 4 and CSS 1
> far, far better than NN4.  (e.g. IE4 supports 69% of CSS1, but NN4
supports
> only 33%). Which is not surprising inasmuch as NN4 came out before the
HTML
> 4 and CSS 1 standards were released (but is surprising inasmuch as
Netscape
> never bothered to fix this disparity).
>
> As to Netscape being less forgiving.  The HTML standards do NOT specify
> what a browser should do if it encounters invalid code.  They do not say
> that the browser should go berserk (as NN too often does), or that the
> browser should try to recover gracefully (as IE does), so neither
browser's
> reaction to invalid HTML is either right or wrong.  As for CSS, its
> standards do require that the browser ignore what it cannot
> understand:  NN4 violates this by (as before) often going berserk, and IE4
> violates this by trying to second-guess the coder, so neither browser's
> reaction to invalid CSS is right.
>
> All this is history, however.  Both Mozilla and IE6 are very
> standards-compliant the DOCTYPE is set appropriately, and I would hesitate
> to say which is the leader ... except to comment that Mozilla is better at
> some things, IE6 at others, and both will get better if we keep up the
> pressure.
>
>
> -
> Chuck Upsdell, Website Design
> Email:        chuck(at)upsdell.com
> Website:      http://www.upsdell.com/
> Browser News: http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/
>
>

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