RE: Warning about Netscape 7 Preview
by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>
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Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:16:22 -0400 |
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"Davies, Elizabeth H." <EHDavies(at)West.com> |
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>I completely disagree with that. Mozilla is implementing (or attempting to
>implement) the standards. NS is now based on the Mozilla engine. MS
>appears to be grudgingly applying the standards ...
I agree that MS is a bit slack in applying the standards, but let's be
honest: IE4 supported the standards far better than NN4; IE5 supported the
standards better still; IE5.5 better still; and IE6 better still. Only
with NN6/Mozilla has Netscape crept up to IE6 ... and arguably passed
it. IE is like the turtle in Aesop's fable: slowly, steadily, running the
race, while Netscape has been like the rabbit, resting for years, then
making a frantic dash to catch up. Yes, Netscape deserves a lot of credit
for what it has (recently) done; but Microsoft deserves some credit too.
>"Designing" for IE makes for lazy code ...
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>I bet if you designed a page using only Netscape unique code ...
But one should not design a page for a particular browser anyway: one
should design for the standards, while making tweaks needed to satisfy the
idio(t)syncracies of the real-world browsers.
[] Regards, Chuck Upsdell
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Chuck Upsdell
Email: cupsdell(at)upsdell.com
Website: http://www.upsdell.com/
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