Whitecrest said:
No problem, glad to help.
Actually referring back to a previous post as to why Firebird and others
will never take over IE. One of the main reason is that it will not run
Javascript and the DOM that will run in IE. If an IE user who visits a
Interestingly, I saw an article somewhere (wish I could find it again)
which showed, and supported with numbers, an interesting premise: if
Microsoft were to remove the code which allowed IE to do its guesswork
at code correction, and merely interpretted the code as parsed, the
application would be roughly half its current size.
site, that uses some of this code (document.frame), then switched to
Mozilla, the page will not work right. Which means (to the user) that
Mozzila is broke because it can not run a web page that runs fine in IE.
More and more people are becoming aware of the "other browsers" and
their superiority over IE. It's a slow process, but one that I suspect
will become more evident in the next 12-18 months, as people grow tired
of waiting for the next IE. Internet technology, browsers included,
moves too fast to leave a browser sitting idle for that long.
Even though Mozilla is RIGHT, it makes no difference to the user. The
web page that worked in IE no longer works in Mozila. They go back to
IE which worked (albeit for the wrong reasons) So if 80%+ of your users
use IE, the page had better work right in it.
Ah, but herein lies the point. For the most part, coding for the
standards means the site works in IE AND those other browsers. So the
question then becomes, why use proprietary IE coding to cater to the
majority, when using the standards approach nets you that majority
audience of IE PLUS a large chunk of the minority? Instead of supporting
your 80%, you could support easily over 90%! Seems like simple logic to me.
But this is neither here nor there, thanks for seeing the code error in
my script.
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