Posted by rossz on 09/28/05 10:24

rf wrote:
> clive wrote:>
>
>>talthen.z-serwera.o2@nospam.pl wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks for your answers- they will make be better in a world of illogic
>
> wc3
>
>>>standars :]
>>
>>The standards themselves are not the problem, the problem is the way
>>that they are then intepreted by the various makers of browsers.
>
>
> Nope. The problem is that the browser manufacturers have seen fit (IE
> notably) to introduce error correction in an endeavour to display at least
> *something* when an author serves up invalid soup.
>
> (If all browsers totally ignored anything that is invalid (instead of trying
> to second guess the author) then we would not be having this discussion. The
> OP's code would simply have not worked, period.)

If all browsers followed the specs, stopped second guessing, and ignored
errors, a whole lot of so-called professional web designers would have
to look for honest work.

--
Rossz
God kills a kitten each time someone uses Internet Explorer

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