Re: MS vs Mozilla, Netscape

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From: Murray (forums_at_HAHAgreat-web-sights.com)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:57:02 -0400

Sadly, yes. Netscape/Mozilla is interpreting according to the Standards
written by W3C (http://www.w3.org). Microsoft is often not following these
standards. I'm not being judgmental here, just stating the underlying
facts. The problem is that Microsoft and W3C sometimes do not see eye to
eye on rendering issues. Each feels that they have the right and the
responsibility to follow their own interpretation.

Notwithstanding this, IE6 is pretty good at Standards compliance, but there
are some notable exceptions.

Over and above the standards issue, IE6 is also much more forgiving than
Netscape/Mozilla/FireFox/etc. So you will see IE6 make very intelligent
guesses at how a page should be rendered despite a train-wreck of code.
Perhaps some of the pages you have looked at in both browsers fall into this
category? 

-- 
Murray
"deacon" <deacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C1D21652-0C5F-4056-AD21-0CE2A1260963@microsoft.com...
> Whenever you create a web page using Front Page and you view it in IE and
every thing seems to work just the way you planned, why is it, this same
page can and oftren does, display differently in Netscape or Mozilla.  I
have read that Netscape-Mozilla interprets the code correctly and IE does
not.  Is this true?  If not, what is it that makes them display differently?
>

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