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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. > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html