- From: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 05:01:04 -0800
- To: NeTDeMoN <NeTDeMoNZ@flashmail.com>, www-html@w3.org
From: "NeTDeMoN" <NeTDeMoNZ@flashmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 26, 2001, 4:03 AM > I work on the Mozilla project and you don't have to remind me that Netscape > 4.x stinks. Netscape 4.x is out of date and Netscape 6.01 is the version > most people should be using if they have enough memory resources. Therefore, > on "DHTML" pages, people should drop Netscape 4.x support entirely (since > its standards support stinks) and make the pages support Netscape > 6.x/Mozilla/Opera/IE 5. I think this article describes this approach best: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/tohell/ > Microsoft is probably dragging their heels on full > HTML support because fully supporting the standard would allow people to use > Netscape 6.x on pages and it would be better to make pages only support > proprietary MS html (at least for their wallets). Send your valid HTML examples which demonstrate the bugs here: wasp@microsoft.com along with platform information etc., and we'll see what we can do about it. > Netscape 6.x almost fully follows the standards (there are only a few > examples I can think of where it doesn't, such as CSS features not > implemented yet). Perhaps you can ping someone about hierarchical menu OPTGROUPs and proper implementation of the LABEL attribute on OPTION, per HTML4? http://www.tantek.com/HTML4/OPTGROUP.html Tantek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- First to ship full CSS1, HTML4, PNG1, DOM1/HTML. www.microsoft.com/mac/ie/
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