Re: UKRA website and IE7....

Martin Sweeney wrote:
I don't want to make peoples lives easier, I want standards compliance!
IMHO IE is a bag of ***, always has been, always will be.


I don't think that you quite follow....it will make people's lives
easier /because/ of it's standards compliance.

Martin, making comments like this to Bob, or any of us who have been writing web pages since the dawn of the web isn't going to go down that well. Not everyone uses Point and Drool website creation software, not everyone uses PHP and MySQL. Some of us have been sufficiently round the block that we know that there are benefits and shortcomings to all of these, however, one constant in all of this is that Internet Explorer is about as far removed from W3C standards compliance as one can get, compared with the other choices available.

Do some research:
# http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/
# http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx
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http://www.molly.com/2006/03/01/microsoft-ie7-progress-sneak-preview-of-mix06-release/
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http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/the_ie7_mix_06_release.html

No. You do some research on Bob. Bob's another one who has been using the web since the start, he's talking from experience. Bob's rocketry website in fact, is one of the longest running of the rocketry websites around in the UK, and is so nicely and simply designed, that Bob barely has to change a thing on it. I think that speaks volumes.

They're working with the webstandards committee to make sure that it's
as compliant as possible. Saying that it's a bag of *** because of
its lack of standards compliance is a little blinkered.

Really ?This from the same company whose idea of standards compliance with XML and document formats is somewhere out in orbit around Saturn you mean ? The same company who ever since Internet Explorer 1 has made it a pain in the posterior to write websites, since you have to write them for IE, and the rest of the world's browsers essentially.

I'll be sticking with Firefox thankyouverymuch,

Gosh, surely, if you'd have done your research, you'd have seen that Opera is more compliant though?

> but it's nice to know
that I'll have to spend less time hacking around with my CSS to get IE
to display it properly.

And if you believe that, you'll be pleased to know I'm currently looking out of my window and the sky is purple with yellow spots :-)

All the best,

Richard



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