Re: MS vs Mozilla, Netscape

From: chris leeds (chris_at_nedp.net)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:19:29 -0400

a good design _should_ work in every browser. I guess I'm a little lazy
since I'll test explorer 6, and the fairly current mozilla and opera. I
haven't tested down to nn4 in a while, and I'm comfortable with that. ;-)

HTH 

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"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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