Kurlan, I'm sorry, but you're talking out of your bottom. By standards, they mean the World Wide Web Consortium's standards - and Internet Explorer definitely does not adhere to them anywhere near as closely as other browsers. IE7 is a step forward in some ways (and a step back in others, try left floating a UL for example), but it's still miles behind Firefox.
It's never IE being wonderful and making something pretty out of bad code, it's always people having to code badly to get IE to render properly. An important distinction. Between some odd interpretations of CSS and the differences between JavaScript and JScript, IE adds work to a developer's day.
I'm not an anti-Microsoft type nor an IE basher (other than coding pages that it *and* Gecko-based browser likes, I've never had a problem with it), but nor am I going to defend it so blindly.
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Dale @ Dec 13th 2007 8:42AM
Kurlan, I'm sorry, but you're talking out of your bottom. By standards, they mean the World Wide Web Consortium's standards - and Internet Explorer definitely does not adhere to them anywhere near as closely as other browsers. IE7 is a step forward in some ways (and a step back in others, try left floating a UL for example), but it's still miles behind Firefox.
It's never IE being wonderful and making something pretty out of bad code, it's always people having to code badly to get IE to render properly. An important distinction. Between some odd interpretations of CSS and the differences between JavaScript and JScript, IE adds work to a developer's day.
I'm not an anti-Microsoft type nor an IE basher (other than coding pages that it *and* Gecko-based browser likes, I've never had a problem with it), but nor am I going to defend it so blindly.