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Posted by Dave Hinz on 04/25/06 20:55
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:43:06 -0600, Bruce Grubb <bgrubb@zianet.com> wrote:
> In article <4b6nskFvsorvU1@individual.net>,
> Dave Hinz <DaveHinz@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>> Here, let me try. IE can render standard HTML adequately. Other
>> browsers also will render standard HTML adequately. If you code to the
>> specific rendering errors that IE has, you will be writing broken HTML
>> which will be broken on any browser that isn't broken.
> Exactly the point. And besides you have to be doing some really obscure
> stuff for IE to have serious problems. Going for the standard is the way
> to go because as previous articles have pointed out HTMLing for version
> x.0.1 of browser y can have problems if x.0.2 fixes the bug you just HTMLed
> to.
Exactly. Long ago, people learned that you don't break the good part to
fit the bad, you fix the bad one to work with the good one. Applies in
mechanical assemblies as much as it applies to electronic
communications.
> The only sane thing is to HTML to the standard and keep away from as much
> 'gee wizardry' as you can and go KISS. While the
><http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html> page shows some fun
> bugs in IE
Heh. I wonder if Microsoft pays attention to that page. They should.
Talk about someone doing your homework for you and handing you a
repeatable testable problem statement.
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