Gordon:
You can check your web pages against the W3C standard here:
http://validator.w3.org
just type in your URL and it will tell you how close you are to the web standards. There is a link on that page to check your style sheet and also to HTML Tidy which can take your code and make it standards compliant. Of course, IE Win does not support all the standards and IE MAC supports different ones.
Regards,
Steven C. Perkins
At 10:10 AM 3/31/2005 -0600, you wrote:
Hi Jim,
Sorry to disagree with you but I have a different perspective. I have been in the computer business for over thirty years and while I agree it would be nice to have everything generic, compatible, and usable by anything that wants to plug in to it, access it, or otherwise use it, the reality is that some functionality is usually lost. I for one want that extra functionality when it comes to my web pages. I like dynamic web pages, clickable maps and FrontPage extensions, etc. In fact I did my first clickable image map as a result of this thread. If I was a business and trying to attract users to my site then It would certainly make sense to make it generic so all browsers displayed it the same way.
M$oft IE is still the browser of choice. I don't know their market share but most people I know use it. I have tried using Mozilla and Netscape and found it frustrating that they don't work with some sites. I know that the reason is that those sites are not written in a "generic" way but using IE I haven't had a problem viewing any sites. I guess my opinion would be for the other browsers to be more compatible. I haven't tried Firefox yet. Yeah, I know, standards, standards, standards but the standards issue isn't getting any easier to resolve.
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