>I don't disagree. >But given the penetration that IE already has often >determines by default what a developer does.
Depends on the psychological profile of the developer. A daily drudge for whom it is all just a job will probably code for Win IE and do as little as possible to be hospitable to other browsers. Somebody who is excited by Web technology and loves to keep up with the cutting edge will be coding to the W3C standard and then using one of the patch libraries to "fix" IE or adding code to dumb down the page to work with IE. Dreamweaver even has several IE work-arounds available from its menus. Personally, I don't think we should allow MS to dumb down the Web. In our trainig classes we stress the stuff that works well in all current browsers. We only occasionally show stuff the does not work in IE. When we teach a non-IE feature we caution students to use it to enhance a page that already works in IE. So the msssing function will just be a nice enhancement, not a critical function. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
