Re: Standards

Then what is the point of having standards if the same code does not work in 
different browsers?
it defeats the point.

ok browsers have bugs - understandable, but which browser is correct? IE or 
NS?
or should i just stick the goldern rule of  - "program for the browser that 
is most widely available"?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Bagot" <tsb-w3-validator-000A@earth.li>
To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Cc: "Abyss" <info@abyss.ws>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Standards


>
> At 2004-10-07T09:05+1000, Abyss wrote:-
>
>> but for some reason the page does not display properly in IE compared to 
>> NS
>> and Opera,
>
>> If they are supposed to be standards and I have validated it, how come 
>> the
>> pages are not displayed the same?
>
> One or more of:
>
> 1) (X)HTML (even with CSS) does not guarantee that documents will be
> displayed exactly the same everywhere. That is not its job.
>
> 2) Browsers have bugs.
>
> 3) You have written something that is syntactically valid, but incorrect
> (and NS and Opera happen to do what you want with it).
>
>
> Tim Bagot
>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 7 October 2004 08:42:33 UTC