Let me be quite clear I was NOT having a go at IE. While I do have issues with it, that was NOT the point of the post. I quite explicitly said we have to live with that. I also deliberately kept all references to specific browsers out of the post, except for the aside about IE.
What my suggestion was, was that as a group (web desingers/devlopers) we could, if there was the political will, have some influence on the future development of browsers. If no one is interested fine. I am quite sanguine about the variants out their currently, but if as a community we declared a set of preferred browsers and did everything we could to promote those then we could have a real effect on the future. Finally, I thought I had also made it clear that the post was tongue in cheek and a coat trailing exercise. Yours till the next time :) Giles -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Gleitzman Sent: 09 June 2004 02:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Action to force browser developers to clean up their act On Wednesday, June 9, 2004, at 10:26 AM, Peter Firminger wrote: > Could it be that your site is broken, not the browser? We don't have > any > trouble accommodating IE with standards compliant code. I think your > taking > the argument too far and blaming the tool. > There are very few issues remaining if you code your page thoughtfully > (not > in quirks mode) and ignore the features (like attribute selectors) that > don't work in IE. Get over it. Giles' original post said > I'm pissed off trying to fix a lump of code that is apparently > compliant but breaks in one browser because some halfwit can't be > bothered to develop compliant software. Ironically, he didn't say which browser - but having also suggested that 'we have to live with IE' because of 'market forces', the inference was there. My answer to Giles was supposed to say, just as you have, 'Get over it.' I obviously have to stop contributing so late at night. N ___________________________ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
