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Re: [LUG] IE for linux !

 

or don't bother with any of the eye-candy? I'm sure that

<h1>This is a simple page</h1>
<body>
hello this is a simple page.
</body>

will display well enough on any browser.

I'd much rather someone spent the time making a site
interesting/useful than pretty.

On 9/26/06, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> paul sutton wrote:
> >
> > am I correct here, and also correct in thinking that IE is MS standards
> > complient rather than fully W3c standards complient.
>
> Very little software ever complies with relevant standards when those
> standards are as complex as the CSS 2.1 standards.
>
> IE conforms with less than Firefox as there has been virtually no
> development (unless you count twiddling with ActiveX kill bits, and
> fixing buffer overflows) for half a decade (excepting stuff not yet in
> wide use).
>
> However there are some bits of the CSS standards that IE implements and
> Firefox doesn't (okay obscure bits but we hit one, I suspect IE may not
> have it right, but at least it tried), and bits that neither Firefox nor
> IE get right.
>
> IE gets harsh press in part since people assume not complying with the
> standards is some sort of MS policy.
>
> So the method is write to standards, and hack for the most common
> browsers and rendering engines (which will depend on how much time or
> have), whatever those browsers may be. And it will likely stay that way
> forever, even if the most common browser selection changes.
>
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