Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Bush2000
Netscape has begun actively tracking down popular Web sites that do not render correctly in its browser and encouraging the sites to fix the errors. The company said it has now eradicated errors from most popular sites.

Therein lies the problem for Netscape. Instead of fixing their browser to properly display the websites, they are asking the websites to reprogram their code to accomodate them! If my company adopted that business strategy, they'd be going down the tubes too.

45 posted on 08/28/2002 6:22:17 PM PDT by SamAdams76
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: SamAdams76
Instead of fixing their browser to properly display the websites, they are asking the websites to reprogram their code to accomodate them!

Mozilla is built to be compliant with W3C specs for HTML, Javascript, etc. If a page won't render correctly in Mozilla (ergo NS 6 and 7) it means the site was built specifically for IE. If the site uses IE specific features and not W3C standards then you shouldn't expect Netscape to load it properly. What Netscape is doing is saying "WRITE TO THE F%#$ING ACCEPTED STANDARDS!!!!" in a more polite way. Many users have been bitching about this for years. The Mozilla hackers are more concerned with standards that'll work consistantly on all supported platforms, not locking in developers.

60 posted on 08/29/2002 10:09:43 AM PDT by dheretic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies ]

To: SamAdams76
Instead of fixing their browser to properly display the websites, they are asking the websites to reprogram their code to accomodate them!

Mozilla is built to be compliant with W3C specs for HTML, Javascript, etc. If a page won't render correctly in Mozilla (ergo NS 6 and 7) it means the site was built specifically for IE. If the site uses IE specific features and not W3C standards then you shouldn't expect Netscape to load it properly. What Netscape is doing is saying "WRITE TO THE F%#$ING ACCEPTED STANDARDS!!!!" in a more polite way. Many users have been bitching about this for years. The Mozilla hackers are more concerned with standards that'll work consistantly on all supported platforms, not locking in developers.

61 posted on 08/29/2002 10:10:11 AM PDT by dheretic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson