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Vince C.
Hi.
Since I'm developing for the web I'm getting more and more fed up with
Internet explorer. Frankly guys, it's top for an Intranet for I can use
whatever I like between ActiveX, HTC, XML, aso... But as soon as I want to
design a web page that really complies with standards, I start wheeping all
my tears off.
Netscape/Mozilla give far, far, far better results. Mozilla's the best
browser engine (at least an Internet tool that can safely call itself an
Internet Browser). First it handles CSS2 much more better than MSIE.
Positionning gives headaches with MSIE (see the 3px bug, the float table
bug, clipped elements, the italic text bug, content that is not selectable
in floated/absolute containers...).
All modern browsers *perfectly* display transparent PNG correctly. All...
but MSIE, which shows a wonderful gray, opaque background where it should
be transparent. This forces developers to play with GIF instead. Just
because that toy is installed by default on millions of machines.
And to top it all, Microsoft tells you that you will have to upgrade your OS
to get an improved version of MSIE!... They won't improve their version 6
as a stand-alone downloadable package. It's a question I asked personnally
on MS news servers. I was so much astounded that I didn't react
immediately.
And should I build my house all over again if I want wooden windows instead
of plastic chassis? Naaaaa, are they joking?
See:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/ie-primer.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/dup-characters.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/float-bugs-1.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html
To quote the main ones.
Where do you want to go today? Well, I've already started to switch to
Linux. If buggy, at least you always have a chance to get it fixed some
day.
Ciao.
Since I'm developing for the web I'm getting more and more fed up with
Internet explorer. Frankly guys, it's top for an Intranet for I can use
whatever I like between ActiveX, HTC, XML, aso... But as soon as I want to
design a web page that really complies with standards, I start wheeping all
my tears off.
Netscape/Mozilla give far, far, far better results. Mozilla's the best
browser engine (at least an Internet tool that can safely call itself an
Internet Browser). First it handles CSS2 much more better than MSIE.
Positionning gives headaches with MSIE (see the 3px bug, the float table
bug, clipped elements, the italic text bug, content that is not selectable
in floated/absolute containers...).
All modern browsers *perfectly* display transparent PNG correctly. All...
but MSIE, which shows a wonderful gray, opaque background where it should
be transparent. This forces developers to play with GIF instead. Just
because that toy is installed by default on millions of machines.
And to top it all, Microsoft tells you that you will have to upgrade your OS
to get an improved version of MSIE!... They won't improve their version 6
as a stand-alone downloadable package. It's a question I asked personnally
on MS news servers. I was so much astounded that I didn't react
immediately.
And should I build my house all over again if I want wooden windows instead
of plastic chassis? Naaaaa, are they joking?
See:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/ie-primer.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/dup-characters.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/float-bugs-1.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html
To quote the main ones.
Where do you want to go today? Well, I've already started to switch to
Linux. If buggy, at least you always have a chance to get it fixed some
day.
Ciao.