Posted by Chaddy2222 on 07/25/06 13:39

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Gideon wrote:
> > Hi Els,
> >
> > I figured it out. Damn! Just one "curly brace" or whatever those squiggley
> > brackets are called was mistakenly put in as a regular bracket
> > (parentheses?) symbol. Thank god that DW showed up the error in pink fonts
> > or I'd have missed it totally.
> >
> > Turns out that Microsoft had the brains to build human stupidity into their
> > CSS parser (well, hey, look at their software!), whereas Firefox moves to
> > the "anal" or righteous end of the spectrum.
>
> I would say when IE 'guesses' correctly it is one thing but many times
> when the code is 'correct' it 'guesses' wrong!
>
> More seriously the problem with IE's ability to parse 'junk' is that
> finding the damn error can be nearly impossible! At least with FF and
> others you know you have made a mistake somewhere.

Yeah, because FF is perfect. (Well maybe not exactly).
Oh and I always thaught that code guessing was a built-in feature of
IE.
It's also set to improve (less) in IE7.
I have not even bothered to start codeing for it yet. I figgure their's
not much point, considering it's only in beta faise.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc/contact-us.html

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