[plug] Mozilla Issues

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Wed Jan 8 13:53:52 WST 2003


> Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Many (windoze) developers creating 
> web sites use Microsoft's knowledge base for documentation (rather than W3C).
> This is regardless if the delivery technology is ISS+ASP or Apache with
> PHP/mod_perl/etc... As a result the sites end up using many IE specific 
> extensions. Most of the time there is equivalent standard functionality, 
> it's a sorry situation really :(

The best example is sites that assume IE's CSS implementation, complete 
with more quirk than work. Another pet hate is sites that set a leading 
in px not em so that the text overlaps if you choose to use a really 
high display resolution and large fonts (like me).

Craig




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