Re: navigation bars-absent on newer version of Netscape

Another point is that the standards are defined by the W3C, of which both 
Microsoft and Netscape have long been members.  Both therefore have had 
every opportunity to push their own ideas, and (IMO) both were obliged to 
accept the standards that evolved.  It is somewhat scandalous that both 
took a long time - Netscape more than Microsoft - to bring their browsers 
in line with the standards.

Some stats that may be relevant here:  about the same number use NN4 as use 
IE4, about 9% in each case.  So supporting both continues to be important.

At 12:02 PM 04/23/01, you wrote:

>tim booker wrote:
>
> > Hello Tamara,
> >
> > In fact you don't need to write things different ways for Netscape 6 and
> > IE5, because they both support the standard DOM.  The problem is supporting
> > IE4 and Netscape 4, which both ignored the standard and created their own
> > version of the DOM.
>
>Back then, there was no DOM standard to ignore. Nobody had attempted any 
>sort of
>dynamic HTML.  Both Netscape and IE "did their own thing" and developed 
>DOMs on
>their own for the version 4 browsers. The result was two very different DOMs.

HWG hwg-techniques mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA