"Robert Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >...If alternate browser developers can't keep the >basic functionality of the HTML standard intact, should every other >developer in the world dance to their drum?
No. And that's the point. It's IE that deviates from the standard. To test in the most standards-compliant browser at the moment, use Mozilla (or any derivative of the 1.0-codebase). Then tweak for IE. Amongst other things, I also do web development. If you start out with a non-standard page and try to force it into the standard (the "write for IE and tweak" approach), it is always harder than writing to the standard and then applying little tweaks to get it to work in the non-standard ones. Actually, IE is pretty good at the standards these days so I'm surprised this is a problem. They do have a few hassles (decent PNG support would be nice), but then so do the other side (COLGROUP not handled very well in Mozilla). To be honest, I'm quite shocked and depressed at the line coming out that says Cobalt test only with the mass-market browser. My opinion - they should test against the defined standards, and then adapt to the mass market -if it proves necessary-. Mostly, it won't. >Get the guys that write the browser software on the same page! Well, effectively there are about five pages. - The standard (best exemplified by Mozilla and its derivatives) - IE (little variance these days) - Netscape 4.7 (horribly broken, may a curse be laid upon its CSS support for all time...) - Konquerer - IE for the Mac (small differences, but they're there). To be completist, there's also Opera (cross platform) and Omniweb (Mac OSX). Just to restate - my approach is to always develop to standards using Mozilla to view as I write, then to test with IE to ensure compatibility. I'm surprised to hear a company, particularly a Linux-based company, argue that writing to standards is not important. Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
