Re: MS vs Mozilla, Netscape

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

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:42:55 -0400

It's not so hard, really. Code to standards. Add IE conditionals for
specific issues. You're done.

My site is mostly CSS and looks identical in all browsers (at least those I
have tested).

http://www.great-web-sights.com 

-- 
Murray
"deacon" <deacon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FD604E32-F2FA-4DC4-8B16-E82AF5D9093B@microsoft.com...
> 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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