Sent by Dave Silvester on 2 August 2004 16:04
On Sunday 01 Aug 2004 17:24, Jeroen Visser [ vizi ] wrote:
> Please, don't get me wrong: I sometimes use hacks to. And I'm not trying
> to start some heated debate pro or con hacking. It's just something that
> struck me.
Well, the way I look at it is: there's a standard that is agreed on by all
members of the W3C, including Microsoft. If browser vendors break the agreed
standards, or are aware that their browser doesn't work as the standards
intend, yet do nothing to remedy that situation, then what choices do they
leave us with?
It goes without saying that IE is the worst offender. CSS development time
would be cut in half across the board if it wasn't for IE wasting everyone's
time with it's ridiculous bugs.
All other browser vendors apart from Microsoft managed to independently arrive
at virtually the same page rendering, whatever the browser. Those that
aren't quite there yet (Safari, IMHO) aren't far away, and are constantly
improving. Yet Microsoft - one of the biggest companies in the computing
world - can't get it right, and doesn't seem to care.
Hacks totally suck, but are an unfortunate necessity at the moment, and it's
largely thanks to Microsoft, because they simply don't care about standards.
So, when given the choice of no choice, what else can you do? Hacks that
validate is all we're left with.
~Dave
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Dave Silvester
Music Technology Junkie
Web: http://www.mu-sly.co.uk/
Email: sly at mu hyphen sly dot co dot uk
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