Richard Schilling wrote: >Of course he's right. Look, the point is this: Dr. Chan never said that he >designed the interface to use IE6-exclusive functionality (like ActiveX >controls or specific IE6 DHTML). He said that IE6 implements the W3C >protocol better than other browsers.
Can someone give us some good links to verify the assertion that IE6 actually conforms to W3C specifications for HTML, CSS, DOM, etc. as well as or better than current versions of Mozilla or Netscape? I find that assertion somewhat shocking and doubtful because every comparison I can remember reading in the past indicated that IE was far LESS STANDARDS COMPLIANT than Mozilla and Netscape 6+. I haven't yet located the detailed feature comparisons I remember reading previously, but here are a few relevant items that came up on a recent search. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2001Oct/0105.html This and the cnet article referred to suggest to me that the claim of superior standards conformance for IE6 was simply wishful thinking. http://www.bath.ac.uk/~py8ieh/internet/eviltests/ Test suite and comparison of user submitted results. Also lists other test suites. --------------------------------------- Jim Self Chief Systems Developer and Manager VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself)
