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

date posted 1st September 2003 16:25

Which bit exactly is NOT going to work?

Mike



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> Eckersall
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> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: how many pages will broken after this?
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> as matt edwards pointed out IE's only the first - they'll go after
> opera, mozilla, etc. soon enough.
>
> there'll be new business alright, but its going to involve whatever new
> method M$, macromedia and the W3C.
>
> what this may do - although probably not - is remind redmond that having
> a monopoly means you're the first one in the firing line, and considerng
> the fun n frolics tey're having with burst.com it may be that M$ will be
> having a bad few months.
>
> Luke Perman wrote:
>
> >
> > 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
> >
> > luke
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 01:02 PM, David Eckersall wrote:
> >
> >> this looks interesting:
> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32561.html
> >>
> >> i wonder how many businesses are going to suddenly find their sites
> >> broken?
> >
> >
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