On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:20:41 +1300 Yuri DeGroot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The point is that I could write a basic site in a few hours, but could > > spend another day trying to get it to work in Opera, NeoPlanet, > > Netscape, Konqueror, etc... Is it really worth it (other than from a > > self-satisfaction point of view)? > > afaik, if you stick to standard html, you won't need to try it on every > browser. Has this changed while I wasn't looking? > > Yuri > hey there This, as far as i am concerned is *the* point. (imho). If you build standards-compliant sites then any mfcking browser should be able to handle them - and in the way that your markup intended. If a browser doesn't do so then it is broken - not your site. Fortunately, most browsers at least manage to get this bit right. except of course for M$ and their notorious xsl engine. sigh. but at least the dev community is/was agreed that it was they and not xslt which was at fault and M$ eventually produced a standards conforming update. sort of. fwiw it's the sad facts behind this old debate, like what we've been having here, which acted as one of the major motivations for the effort that has been put into the modularisation of the new XHTML standard. among others. cheers peter
