Re: MS vs Mozilla, Netscape

From: deacon (deacon_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:30:02 -0700

It hardly seems worth the effort to make everything work ok in Netscape and Mozilla given this scenario and seeing as how IE dominates the browsers

"Murray" wrote:

> 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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