From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 03:21:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C5616A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:21:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8418E43D48 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:21:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id j8F3Njb66381; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:23:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Roger Merritt" , Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:21:31 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20050915100130.00a9d190@127.0.0.1> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: IE in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:21:50 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Roger Merritt >Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:09 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD? > > >At 19:22 14/9/2005 -0700, Garret Cooper wrote: >>>You don't mention *why* you need IE. Stating why might help >>>someone provide a better alternative. >> >> The reason why I can see using IE is the ridiculous requirement >>made by many software vendors and website designers that custom >>tailor their content to use either ActiveX (Valve's CS and CS:S for >>example) or certain features only available in IE, or they are just >>plain lazy and don't want to make their content Mozilla friendly. >>-Garrett > >I don't think you mean "Mozilla friendly", I think you mean >"according to >accepted standards." I would be suspicious of anyone selling >software who >was too unaware of web standards to follow standards in their web site >(well, I would except someone who used tables rather than CSS >to lay out a >page -- I can forgive that). Frankly, there are so many web >sites offering >information I need that I don't really have time to worry about >those sites >that require IE. I'm already suffering overload. > Let's quit beating around the bush, shall we? The only vendor that custom tailors their content to IE and who will not correct gross HTML coding errors on their website and in their products is Microsoft. Everybody else, if you wave cash in front of them and say "I will buy your product once you fix these gross html errors your product spews out" they will get real interested in fixing them, all the sudden. Ted