Mozilla on AOS4

[TurboLaban]

mips_proc wrote:
so non-IE dosent support flash...

It may restrict the choice of OS...and thats sad... but if a browser wants acceptance suchas Mozilla...they conform to IE...

Well, actually, most (all ?) browsers support flash as long as flash is available for the OS it runs on. Which it may not be...

You should really do something with that attitude of yours. Yes, a lot of people use IE, but that does in no way justify creating web sites that does not follow the html standards. I know you say that IE is a standard, but it's not. No matter how many people use it. IE is a browser, and any browser should follow the W3C standards. Micro$oft have a long way to go there.

If web pages are created according to the standards (W3C) it will look ok in all browsers. When I create a site, I make sure that it works acceptable in all major browsers (mozilla, opera, ie) and uses 100% valid XHTML and CSS code.

My sites will look fine in Mozilla and Opera, and quite nice in IE. The CSS support in IE is really poor...

The thing is: If you use special IE features, you will run into problems when you want to use other browsers, but if you follow the W3C standards, your site will look good on all browsers. Using correct html does not mean that it will look bad in IE. You don't have to use code that IE can't handle.

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Glenn Hisdal

[TurboLaban]

TurboLaban wrote:
My sites will look fine in Mozilla and Opera, and quite nice in IE. The CSS support in IE is really poor...

Actually, thats not entirely fair. IE6Win can do nearly everything that I require it to do perfectly. It has some absolutely infuriating bugs relating to float behaviour, but for the most part it does just fine. If I do run into trouble, a post to CSS-Discuss generally provides a solution.

IE5Mac has one of the best CSS rendering engines going. The advent of Safari means that MS are less likely to want to develop it much further now though.

Well, ok. Maybe I was a bit hard on it :-)
The problems are, as you say, most of the time possible to get around. It is a bit annoying that it doesn't draw all border styles correctly (but maybe that has changed lately. Using IE5 for Mac myself to test it). But then again, other browsers also have that problem (e.g. khtml based browsers).

Hopefully Microsoft will eventually see that open standards are a good thing, but I fear that they won't  :-(

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Glenn Hisdal