From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 16:58:34 2005 Return-Path: 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 A7BCC16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:58:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp7.wanadoo.fr (smtp7.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5441543D53 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:58:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0708.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 254521C0009D for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:58:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf0708.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id EBBE51C00099 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:58:32 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050215165832965.EBBE51C00099@mwinf0708.wanadoo.fr Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:58:32 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <406603780.20050215175832@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <1497115560.20050215024836@wanadoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:58:34 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > In short, there's no way to know how an incorrectly written > HTML page will display on IE. The solution is to not write HTML incorrectly. That's what HTML validators are for. No browser has any obligation to behave in any particular predetermined way in the face of bad HTML. > As a result of this, people that create web pages (and I am NOT > polluting the title 'web designer' by lumping every moron that writes > a web page into that group) and only look at them with IE usually end > up making lots of mistakes. They fix these by layering on even more > bandaids and mistakes until they get something somewhat resembling > what they are after. Is is of course only displayable in IE. Needless > to say this is a VERY bad thing for the Internet because it undercuts > the standards as it enables the proliferation of websites that don't > follow them. These Web sites harm no one except themselves. Webmasters are sovereign over their sites and I think they should be allowed to write anything they want. If I don't like the way their site does or does not display in my browser, I'll leave the site. I already do that routinely for any site that contains Flash animation. > That depends on your definition of "best" It is likely to display most pages in a correct way. I've been testing Opera, Firefox, and MSIE side by side, and right now it's between Firefox and MSIE. Opera is already out of the running. -- Anthony