-----Original Message----- From: Ross Clutterbuck [Re: Is Netscape 4.x dead?
I don't worry about older browsers per se, but like Rudy it's the @import trick I use to keep the design work hidden from horrors like Netscape 4.7 (and I'm most pleased of myself I've not used a single CSS hack in about a year now). I've never understood the mentality to do browser sniffs or deliver different content to different browsers - if you do your job properly you shouldn't need to, even with the plethora of bugs, quirks and inconsistencies we see in all the browsers out there (although I'd love to see IE dead or Microsoft get their asses in gear, read the specs and stop acting like children - although we would need to see the end of the Compuserve "PNG will kill GIF - please keep it alive for us" backhander conspiracy to do it properly). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ rudy and Russ have the right of it -- avoid the hacks and the sniffs. Older browsers, as Cheryl says, can get the content right even if it isn't fully tricked out. Non-compliant browsers of all sorts should degrade with reasonable grace. Microsoft has its browser functioning perfectly for the MS Wide Web. IE6 with its compounding bug and bug workarounds fits perfectly with all the other bug ridden MS applications. Cross-platform reliability doesn't seem to be much of a goal for MS. Cherry picking standards to form a proprietary implementation seems more in keeping with passed performance. Look at the proprietary implementation of xml, the invention of asp, the MS dependence of .Net, and then speculate on the chances that IE Longhorn will be standards compliant. MS isn't going to seriously adopt standards unless and until there is a critical mass of standards compliant browser usage such that IE users start to realize that while they are getting the same information as other people it looks boring and plain by comparison. drew ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
