Re: Writing For Standards vs Writing For A Browser

> "Microsoft came under fire today from Web standards advocates over its
> latest browser, which lets Web developers offer their visitors fairly
> complex applications with the flick of the wrist--as long as those
visitors
> aren't using Netscape.


There is nothing wrong with adding innovations to browsers as long as the
basic standards are met!

IE5 for Mac does appears to be 100% compliant  with HTML4.0, XML,  CSS1, and
DOM1. Unfortunately there are still bugs in IE5 for PC's in all these
standards, although 5.5 is much better that preeceeding versions of IE5.

I actually write for a captive OIE5 audience (intranet), but I just write to
the standards. Why? because I believe in them! If i want to write for PC's i
will use Visual C++ or VB!!

frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Lapcewich <Dennis.Lapcewich(at)unisa.edu.au>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>; <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 6:59 PM
Subject: Writing For Standards vs Writing For A Browser


> As one of those advocates for creating and maintaining websites according
to
> standards (and not just the poorer quality market-dominated browser out
> there), you may wish to check out the article below.
>
> "IE 5.5 Angers Web Standards Advocates"
>
> "Microsoft came under fire today from Web standards advocates over its
> latest browser, which lets Web developers offer their visitors fairly
> complex applications with the flick of the wrist--as long as those
visitors
> aren't using Netscape.
>
> "Microsoft's newly released Internet Explorer 5.5 browser introduces
> shortcuts for Web developers that make adding page elements, such as
> calendars, as easy as inserting a tag. On top of that, Microsoft's
adherence
> to basic industry standards for Web technologies as basic as HTML--often
> called the Web's lingua franca--has been called into question by standards
> advocates."
>
> See
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2254214.html?tag=st.ne.1005.thed.ni
>
>
>
>
> Dennis
>
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> Adelaide, Australia
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>
>

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