- From: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:32:53 -0800
- To: Daniel Hiester <alatus@earthlink.net>, "www-html" <www-html@w3.org>
From: "Daniel Hiester" <alatus@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, Dec 14, 2000, 7:06 AM > Daniel Koger said: > > "Furthermore, we should be educating Web users about the importance of > standards compliance and encouraging them to switch to standards-compliant > browsers, the best of which currently is Netscape 6." Some might disagree with you there. Standards-compliance is a good thing to have, but it is not the only thing which makes a browser "the best". > I respond: > > Heh. Sounds like a lot of the talk I used to hear way back when in the WSP > list. Here's what I say: DON'T educate users about the importance of web > standards, Why not? Pretty much every time a user asks me why a web page doesn't look right, I tell them it's because the web page isn't standards compliant. > Strong support for the w3c's specs is still in the "coming things" > category, Shipping since last March - http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ie/ Now, if you mean "strong support across different browsers and platforms", then yes, that could still be argued to be in the "coming things" category. > Unfortunately, the question remains, when do we get to > the point where we can finally use the w3c's specs? Today. I have yet to see real examples of why authors can't author w3c standards compliant/valid content (marginheight/marginwidth and event attributes excepted). Tantek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I can only show you the door. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ie/
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