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Posted by Michael Winter on 09/21/05 19:44
On 21/09/2005 15:57, Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
> "Michael Winter" <m.winter@blueyonder.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet
> news:YAcYe.112620$G8.15160@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
[snip]
>> If you approach development from the perspective that IE is right,
>> and others are wrong, you will make life very hard for yourself.
>
> I did not mean that!!
> I just meant that I concentrate more on the browser which most of my
> users use.
And I am saying that that's a counterproductive approach to take. You'll
find yourself in a position where you develop for IE and everything else
be damned.
> Perhaps, I could not validate the CSS stylesheet or I forgot to do
> that.
Validation is not the be-all and end-all of Web development. Validation
will not tell you how your documents will be rendered in a variety of
browsers. At best, it just means that your CSS is 'correct', that a
standards-compliant browser will render your suggestions properly, and
hopefully other browsers will, too. It is no substitute for actual testing.
> Perhaps, it depended on https.
Using HTTPS does have implications for your site, but rendering is not
one of them.
> Still, I think that https is useful for other reasons
> ( I do not want to discuss about them again and again..)
You never discussed them in the first place. Others did, but you refused
to participate with a response that really didn't seem relevant.
> Also, I assumed that browsers should comply with the requirements of
> validation so that the pages which validate can be displayed by
> browsers.
> Is that the case?
Browsers don't "comply with the requirements of validation" because they
play no part in the validation process and, as I explained, validation
has no relevance with regard to rendering.
Browsers should comply with the specifications for the languages and
schemes they claim to implement, but no-one should need to be told that
this is rarely the case. IE is considered to be one of the worst
all-round offenders (especially due to its penetration of the browser
market) so using it for initial validation would seem foolish, at best.
Mike
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