- From: David E. Ross <david@rossde.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:36:01 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
Part of the problem is that "millions of pages" were developed to take advantage of non-standard features in IE. Many of those pages were developed using MS tools that created non-standard HTML and CSS. Those pages should indeed be broken with IE 8 as many already are in non-MS browsers. Actually, those pages were broken to start with; but then IE was broken to compensate. How do I know this? I follow the discussions in various newsgroups (e.g., <news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html>) where users ask: "Why does my Web page not display correctly in [name a non-MS browser] when it works okay in Internet Explorer?" When a URI is supplied, a quick check against the W3C HTML and CSS validators shows many, many errors. At the same time, an examination of the source HTML file indicates that it was generated by FrontPage or (worse) Word. David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Don't ask "Why is there road rage?" Instead, ask "Why NOT Road Rage?" or "Why Is There No Such Thing as Fast Enough?" <http://www.rossde.com/roadrage.html>
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