Re: FN-FORUM: how many pages will broken after this?

date posted 1st September 2003 15:26

I don't understand all this - surely all browsers use either EMBED or OBJECT
to get external objects into the page? So what did we do wrong? How could
we have adhered any closer to standards? More importantly, what code are
you stripping out and what are you replacing it with???

This, along with countless other "news" items at the moment just seem like
ultraFUD. I mean, what's the worse case scenario? We have to search and
replace all our EMBED and OBJECT commands and re-upload? We can't use
external apps in browsers any more? (No more flash...standards people start
hugging gleefully - day declared as Jakob Nielsen Day, an international bank
holiday for web designers.) Computers become utterly redundant and we all
have to toil in the fields every day to make a living? All of those
solutions seem workable to me. ;)

Damon : Base-8


> it just goes to show how necessary closer adherence to 'web standards'
> is needed when building pages or sites...
>
> internet explorer has always been pretty 'loose' about badly coded
> pages - which is part of the reason why code for other browsers has to
> be practically re-written for it to work... as long as MS start to
> follow W3's recommendations closer, that's good news in my book...
>
> and what about all that business rebuilding websites that need to have
> their old junky IE code stripped out??? :-D