Richard Garand wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On March 8, 2002 07:34 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>IHMO, yuor statement should be that "At least with KDE there should be >>one browser that is supported by all websites". >> > > Could you explain that? > >
Mozilla and Opera are the two most standards-compliant browsers available, regardless of platform. IE5 on Mac comes in 3rd, Konqueror 4th, IE on windows behind them. This is based on support for the W3C DOM and CSS1 and CSS2. IE gets by, supporting only the core CSS and their own proprietary extensions. Mozilla supports approx 95% of DOM, CSS1 and CSS2 (the rest are bugs listed in Bugzilla). The websites themselves are broken, and were designed only with IE and NS4 in mind. A good site will be designed to work cross-platorm, using the DOM, and only ECMA-supported JS, which would ensure that most browsers work, and that standards-compliant browsers work perfectly. It is not due to the fact that the browsers do not support the websites. The whole point is that web sites should support all browsers, not the other way around. >>Sites not supporting Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror are the ones in the >>wrong, and we need to make them aware of that. >> > > Actually, this site uses a lot of Javascript, without which it would be very > hard to create. Konqueror's javascript support is pretty good right now, but > it still can't handle that site. However, the KDE3 beta announcements > mentioned improvements in konqueror's javascript so I tried it out and > konqueror3 does seem to work. For some reason, Mozilla doesn't work with it > either, but Netscape does. Konqueror in KDE3 will probably work better because they have been adding more work-arounds for non-standard, MS supported extenstions to Javascript. That should not, however, reflect badly on any other browsers, which believe standards-compliance is more important. Standards are what built the internet, and the only thing that will be prevent it from being hijacked by monopolistic software companies. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/gpg.key
