Posted by Andy Dingley on 12/21/05 18:51

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:54:12 +0000, "Alan J. Flavell"
<flavell@ph.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

>the lead developer for MacIE put considerable emphasis
>on conforming to published specifications, instead of riding roughshod
>over them in the way that WinIE has repeatedly been exposed for doing.

So why does Mac/IE suck so badly then?

Maybe the specification for mac/IE was to support standards. This would
be laudable. However the reality is that its basic parser is so broken
that it collapses entirely under trivial syntactic errors, and even
several valid constructs that are just trivially different from the
minimal case. This makes it a poor browser for practical use on the web.
I suspect that the implementation and _particularly_ the test case
design for it were distinctly poor in comparison to these lofty design
goals.

Maybe Mac/IE was intended to be wonderful, but the simple fact is that
it isn't. Nor have M$oft shown any interest in fixing minor but damaging
bugs over several years.

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