Posted by Toby A Inkster on 02/16/07 07:48

TaliesinSoft wrote:

> But isn't it adherence to standards that should bring about uniformity
> in presentation of a website amongst all browsers?

Not really -- as I stated earlier, HTML is not a document presentation
format; it's a language for marking up the *meaning* of the document.

Once the browser has interpreted the meaning of the document, it should
convey that meaning to the user. Different browsers will use different
methods of conveying meaning to the user: that's kind of the whole point
of even having different browsers. If different browsers displayed things
the same, why would we need more than one browser per operating system?

How are Firefox, the Nokia browser, Lynx and Jaws *ever* going to achieve
"uniformity in presentation"? It's ridiculous to even suggest that they
should try.

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