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RE: [CSS] Rules for parsing and compatibility

From: Svend Tofte <svendtofte@svendtofte.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:53:38 +0100
To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: "Stanimir Stamenkov" <stanio@myrealbox.com>, www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <BMEHKMOLKHIDGPNEOJAOCEKACPAA.svendtofte@svendtofte.com> 

That's not the point. The point is that given a spotty browser, how will the
browser make himself, find out what works and doesn't? What if the browser
make misreads the spec, but implements this @compat thingy. Then we have a
faulty @compat, and so on, and so forth.

Regards,
Svend

> Presumably they did, since several years ago they released a significantly
> improved version with dramatically better CSS support. NS7.x was the
> last browser released by Netscape. not NS4.
Received on Tuesday, 30 December 2003 12:54:14 GMT

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