Re: [OT] Geography lesson

Da Frank wrote:
One thing about standards is that they are in general ignorant of
market direction. MS is by far the dominent OS and browser provider
for business and home. I very much recall the days when i *had* to
give away my ANSI C habits, in order to write competetive looking
software, pretty much as soon as Windows hit the scene. Even before
that, writing cross platform software required oodles of #defines and
quite some double coding to cater for OS2,DOS,Unix etc...
DOS was relatively confirming, DOS extensions were not. Windows took
all that to a new level, where writing compliant code meant you were
not writing code for Windows. 

This is nothing new and frankly, HTML progra^H^H^H^H^H^H script
kiddies, who endlessly complain about this, can go and get stuffed.
;-)

Well in this case it's the opposite. CSS style sheets support scrolling text over stationary images and other cool layout stuff that simply doesn't work in M$ IE. It's not a case of M$ having a better way of doing it; they simply don't support the standard correctly and so it is not possible - if you click the links elsewhere in this text you will find websites with ugly background graphical glitches ie. the background scrolls when it should not. So while I agree that some standards can be counter-productive when it comes to innovation, in this case the innovation is in the standard, so for me it's clear that MS should be made to sort it out.

The problem Ruddell brought up is different - I think there's something funny going on there because his example of a webpage that's broken in Firefox isn't broken in Firefox on my machine (now that the url is correct).

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Phil

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