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Posted by Giggle Girl on 02/27/07 16:51
Thanks for your reply, John Hosking. And not just telling me to run
things through a validator, ha! I guess people might get misled by me
saying "Problem with Firefox", but at the same time, it does seem like
an accurate way to describe the problem/issue. Still, no need to
split hairs, we'll call it a "miscommunication".
On Feb 26, 3:53 pm, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net>
wrote:
> I was not condoning what you are trying to do, just pointed out an
> inconsistency in your markup.
Jonathan N. Little, have no fear, no one in this group should make
the mistake of assuming since you actually offered me some help, that
you are "condoning what I am doing"! For the record, what I am doing
is _WRONG_. You see, I have paying clients that liked the look and
behavior in IE of a web application I am building, and they want me to
replicate this look/behavior in Firefox. You are not going to believe
it, but they don't care about W3C standards or what kind of code I use
to achieve this result, they just want it to work! In fact, if my
clients had to choose between some devilish tweaks that are not
compliant, but give results darn close to the look and behavior of the
original URL in IE AND Firefox -- I hope you are sitting down for this
-- they would be very happy, and care not one whit about non-compliant
code!
Conversely, it seems that the vast majority of people in this group
live in an ivory tower, and would sooner choose to implement 100%
compliant code according to the W3C, even if it looked like crap and
was broken in 99% of browsers. My guess is when you enter the real
world and have paying customers, you will adjust this view, or change
careers in short order. (If this is a hobby of yours, you are a
student, you work for the government, or live in a communist country,
well, pray that you never have to do this stuff "in the real world"!
You will be in for a real wake up call.)
I am _STILL_ giggling, and _STILL_ thank the people that offered me
help besides "run it through a validator". I am not get bent out of
shape; I knew what I was up against posting in a newsgroup. And, as I
said, I did get at least one helpfull comment, and one (sort of)
sympathetic response, so it was worth the posting.
I remain the Original Giggle Girl!
-- Ann Giggy
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