Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 02/28/07 04:44

Giggle Girl wrote:
> 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!
....

Ah, go ahead, just put one of those dime-o-dozen browser sniffing
javascript popups "Warning MSIE Required To View This Site!"

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Take care,

Jonathan
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