At the risk of opening a can of worms. Which one is more standards compliant? Netscape or IE? Since I concentrate on database stuff or functionality, I rarely use 'advanced' layout features such as layers or CCS. Are you asking Steve Case / AOL to be compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer? Or are you asking them to adhere to w3.org standards?
Internet Explorer may be the "defacto standard in usability, functionality, and features" but saying that does not address whether or not they are more (or less) standards-compliant than Navigator. Since that is the issue you want to be addressed, it is probably what you should point out in the letter. Perhaps Mr Case will just point you to Mozilla, which (although I haven't used) is supposed to adhere strictly to standards compliancy. At 01:16 PM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Dear Mr. Case, > > We are a group of internet designers/ developers that have come >together to express our dissatisfaction with the Netscape line of >browsers. > Developing for Netscape is more than a headache for web designers >and developers. It means money spent for time when developing a new >site for multiple browsers; it means having to code for the lowest >common denominator in browsers and using the least number of features >available. It means that people have different technologies to access >the same medium, and they get different, unequal experiences. None of >these things are good for the internet. > Let us use an analogy: If our television were to get Time-Warner >Cable, with every channel from HBO to Fox News, and your different brand >of television received the same cable line but the top 30 channels were >fuzzy, and then advertisements appeared much different than when the >designers created them, what kind of experience would that be? You have >advertisers unhappy because their messages do not get across to a >maximum sized audience; some of the audience gets the newest and >fastest, while parts of it just stay the same because they don't know >how to change. Television programmers go crazy trying to figure out what >is viable viewing and what isn't. > We are not trying to condone a monopoly by any company, especially >Microsoft, but rather a standard which must be set and achieved. >Internet Explorer sets the defacto standard in usability, functionality, >and features. Netscape needs to step up or step out. Netscape 6.X still >does not meet the standard. > > We hope you get this and understand our position. > > Thank you for you time. > >Matthew Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mark Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Katherine Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jeffry Houser | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Need a Web Developer? Contact me! AIM: Reboog711 | Fax / Phone: 860-223-7946 -- My Books: http://www.instantcoldfusion.com My Band: http://www.farcryfly.com ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
