On 2/19/2010 6:02 AM, Phillip Jones wrote:
> BJ wrote:
>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>>> I would be perfectly satisfied with a world in which multiple browsers
>>> competed for market share but websites were coded to W3C standards. That
>>> would be a level playing field and the best browser(s) would win.
>>
>> So would I, but that's not reality.
>>
>>> And anyway, how is writing a single version of compliant code not
>>> "accommodating all browsers"? Are some browsers unable to display
>>> compliant pages?
>>>
>> We all know that IE, produced by the 500 pound gorilla on the block,
>> does not display compliant pages . . . "compliantly" in many cases. IE
>> will display the page, but if the code is not written in "IE standards
>> (which in many cases differs substantially from W3C), it may display
>> that compliant code wayyyyy out of whack. I don't like that, but that
>> is the reality.
>>
>> Until the market share shifts SUBSTANTIALLY toward FF/SM, developers
>> will be faced with the reality that, even though they write W3C
>> compliant code, it may not be displayed "properly" via IE.
>>
>> And even then (i.e. if the market share shifts substantially to FF/SM),
>> I'm not so sure MS will surrender to W3C compliance. I'm sure that 500
>> pound gorilla has something ready to thwart that circumstance when the
>> time comes (if it ever does).
>>
>> BJ
>>
>
> Perhaps, Page designers that design pages for w3c compliant should add a
> notation.
>
> /This website was written to World Wide Web Consortium Standards and
> should show properly on the vast Major of Web browsers on the Market
> today/. /If not please contact the creator of the browser that does not,
> and please tell them you will discontinue use of there product until is
> meets specifications/.
>
> Then the users should do what it says.
>
> The funny thing about w3c is MS is one of the Signatories of W3C, along
> with Apple and other major industry players. MS specific goal in doing
> so, is to find out what the specs are so that they can make them as far
> as possible the other direction, to make more people dependent upon IE
> rather than less.
>
I hope you correct the syntax before putting those statements into an
actual Web page.
"... Consortium specifications ..."
"... their product ..."
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