Re: [Dev-C++] OT: MS IE

[Michal M. <mol...@se...>]

Arnout Standaert wrote:
> Daniel Glenfield wrote:
>  >> simply: the problem with MS is not IE 6, the problem is that there 
> is >> no IE 7 (or 6.5 at least)
> 
> No, the problem _is_ with IE 6.0 too. It's implementation of web 
> standards shows major holes, and require IE-specific workarounds by 
> website developers. It can be bloody hard to design a website with HTML 
> and CSS, and make it look exactly the same in Mozilla and IE.

you misunderstand me. Of course that IE 6 has holes in its implementation of 
standards in comparsion with today's browsers like Mozilla 1.5 or Opera 7. 
But on the end of August 2001 (that's 9 months before Mozilla 1.0) when it 
was released it was probably the most standard compliant browser (except of 
some Mozilla's betas (including NN6) which started to be usable but still 
full of glitches). And IE 6 was really significant step towards standards as 
it introduced so called "standard mode" to which you can switch the 
rendering engine using DOCTYPE. That's really big difference against IE 
5.0/5.5.