Re: [MLUG] Netscrape and Internet Exploder (was a long title aboutEv il MS)

[Ian Monroe <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I've been getting my pages verfied, so I've been looking at some of the
standards papers. Many of the people writing them are from Netscape and
Microsoft. This just makes it more odd that they don't follow the rules
they write themselves. But I guess it does kind of make sense. Why would
you want to have a product that didn't stand out? Then again the products
that do stand out (Konqueror, Opera) are more standard compliant.

I find that if you write a standards compliant web page that doesn't have
JavaScript or DHTML then it will look good everywhere. It is a shame that
JavaScript isn't more standard, as it would be very useful and allow a lot
of things to go off of the server and unto the browsers.

Ian


On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, S.J.A. wrote:

> I disagree.  International standards are good.  Standards 
> should be set by such unbiased parties as the W3C.
> Commercial interests will always try to control these
> standards by diviating from them in products that they know
> will have a wide distrobution even if they are broken.  
> 
> Amaya is for testing purposes.  It is not really designed
> with the end user in mind.
> 
> Simply put, we need a new browser.  One that is standards
> compliant, but designed for the end user.  One that is
> free, modular, scalable, portable, and stable.  
> 
> steve
> 


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