re: web browser
Thursday, December 18, 2003 at 2:34 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jagged ben
(3536 messages posted)
It's a fine point, and we're not really disagreeing here, and of course people need
to keep IE around.
It's a matter of wording. I just think that saying that IE is "accepting" of bad
code implies that IE is somehow programmed to deal with errors in html, which isn't
the case. You had already put it correctly, and said enough, when you said that
some sites are poorly coded so that they don't meet standards. Indeed, you could
have said these sites require IE BECAUSE they are poorly coded.
BTW, I also use firebird, but as far as actual display of web pages, I believe it
uses bascially the same code (latest version of Gecko) as Mozilla 1.5.
On Thursday, December 18, 2003 at 1:46 pm, John Liebson wrote:
>I neither implied nor stated that poor coding causes crashes in Mozilla; in fact,
>I did not say anything about that. What I said was that, even using Mozilla or Firebird,
>you need to also have IE for those times that Mozilla/Firebird just won't work.
This
>is true even with the User Agent Switcher extension, for some pages just won't work
>properly except in IE, even when Switcher is used to make MozFire imitate another
>browser.
>
>Furthermore, I don't use Mozilla 1.5, as I prefer Firebird; right now, I'm using
>the first beta-release version of the next Firebird milestone release, which will
>be 0.8. I don't often have crashes using Firebird, but someone found an IE-only
page
>a few days ago that will crash Firebird every time.
>
>As for IE accepting poor coding, first, I'm not a programmer. However, given the
>number of people on the various MozillaZine forums who are web programmers, and
the
>constant traffic about this subject, I can only conclude that what I said was, in
>fact, correct. This traffic often points out the specific coding errors on IE-only
>pages; one of those pages is for a private school whose web site I have reason to
>use, and whose "webmother," given the information I was given on MozillaZine a number
>of months ago, still has not made the requisite changes, so I have to use IE.
>
>
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