Posted by Mimic on 04/27/06 21:17

Bruce Grubb wrote:
> In article <4b7i5rF106pgqU1@individual.net>,
> "Paul Watt" <paulioNOSPAM@wattio.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> "Bruce Grubb" <bgrubb@zianet.com> wrote in message
>> news:bgrubb-F49CC6.14160625042006@news.zianet.com...
>>> Face it unless you are totally blind (or *believe* darkness IS the new
>>> standard) writing to IE is just plain stupid.
>> Write for standards, hack for IE. best of both worlds
>
> If you have to 'hack' the HTML to get IE to behave correctly then odds are
> you are not writing to the standard.

Ok, you'll have to excuse me, before now I just tended to float in and
out of here. Is this Bruce chap some kind of troll? or is he actually as
stupid as he makes out?


> It is better to write to the standards and KISS.

So your websites consist of what exactly? Given that IE doesnt follow
the W3c box model.

>
> The biggest problem IMHO is the fact too many people use WYSIWYG web
> designing programs or word processors which barf out HTML guacamole.

That I'll happily agree with, point click apps tend to churn out non
compliant code.


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