On 01-May-08, at 12:00 AM, Anand Shankar wrote: > Do some of us realise that these institutions may not be delivering > what we expect, not because that they do not want to do it, but > because, perhaps that they have no clue how to do it.
it is quite simple: for css, js and html, IE follows a different 'standard' from the accepted standards. All M$ tools are designed to follow this standard, and hence, by default products of these tools may not be compatible with other browsers. So it is not evil on the part of the managers and 'programmers' - sheer ignorance. The problem is that it is not easy to make something compatible with both IE and other browsers. It is expensive - so unless the expense is worth it, they will not do it. Note that it is easier to write a standards compliant page and then tweak for IE than to the reverse. And it requires a good knowledge of css, js and html - which eliminates 95% of all web programmers. A long, uphill task. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
