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

[Daniel G. <sp...@ho...>]

Can I just say that wasn't me who said that
">> simply: the problem with MS is not IE 6, the problem is that
>>there is >> no IE 7 (or 6.5 at least)"



>From: Michal Molhanec <mol...@se...>
>To: dev...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] OT: MS IE
>Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 19:52:30 +0100
>
>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.
>
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