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Posted by Andrι Gillibert on 10/24/07 22:12
Steve Swift wrote:
>> It is like making a casserole really, anything goes eh?
>
> Precisely! And if, on occasions, you make a mistake (as my mother
> frequently did), and the result is tastier, that becomes your new
> recipe! http://www.swiftys.org.uk/wiz?106
Funny. Posting on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html some invalid code
that displays correctly because of bugs in specific HTML renderers is as
ridiculous as posting on talk.grammar.english an awful grammar error,
claiming that it's fine because Microsoft Word's grammar check feature
doesn't find it.
> Remember, the only "standard" that I'm designing to (in my commercial
> activity, at least) is "Must work in IE6 and the current Firefox"
What will happen when FF and IE6 will upgrade?
> As far as Microsoft and the Firefox developers are concerned, I should
> imagine one of their highest priorities is "Mustn't screw up legacy
> pages with new releases otherwise the customers will switch to the
> competition"
Wrong.
For FF, it's: "Respect standards better".
Standards are hard enough to respect. Respecting cr*p code is secondary,
especially when a parser change increase the standards support but affects
cr*p code (as any parser change does).
Even if there're a few cr*ppy tricks that are well known and that browsers
try to respect, your FORM thing is surely not in this list.
If would be foolish to think that any tester will ever notice that your
cr*p is broken by the new version of FF or IE, unless your site is in of
the top 50 of all web sites.
If your site was in the top 50, then, maybe, IE (but probably not FF)
would try to keep compatibility with your cr*p, at the cost of good
insults aimed at your person, in Microsoft's labs (you can imagine them
yourself), and maybe other tradeoffs in IE, such as reduced performances
and standards conformance.
Overall, you're specifically the type of guy who slow down the
standardization of browsers, increase the number of patches and hacks in
browsers, destroy the Web's openness by preventing alternative browsers
from having any chance of displaying your cr*p, breaks the Web from user
point of view by displaying stupid messages "You must have IE 6.01 beta
3.4 + beta patch 1 or FF 1.5 beta 8 to see this site, but you've IE 6.01
beta 3.5".
> so I'm happy they're looking after me.
They're not. They cannot review all the cr*p code in the world. Actually,
they cannot even manage to get a perfect standards conformance, which is
orders of magnitude easier than maintaining compatibility with all the
cr*p that exist in the world.
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