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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:11:33 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
> > Ok. Do you have a form running now that demonstrates this inability in • IE on
> > LUGNET?
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> I called it "bug" because IMHO it is a User Interface bug. But yeah, more
> objectively, it is simply an "inability."
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> Okie dokie, here ya go, here's a page with two forms... Type text in the
> boxes and hit Enter. If nothing happens when you hit Enter, it's a bug.
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> http://www.lugnet.com/temp/form/msieieio.html
Works fine in MSIE 4 (specifically 4.72.3110.8).
<- snipped a bunch of incompatibilities ->
Have you worked with a more recent version of MSIE than version 3? What
might be interesting is to put up a test page with some of those other
problems and see how many of them have been fixed.
Putting on blinders to a strong competing product seems to be a poor
strategy, at least for something which is trying to be a widely used
resource. At IBM we're finally seeing the end of the mess IBM got into by
ignoring TCP/IP in favor of SNA. IBM has exited the router buisiness, a
buisiness they once owned (back before the Internet when the majority of
networking, at least at a buisiness level, was SNA). There are many other
examples (Microchanel, OS/2, Wordperfect [for a non-IBM example] to name a
few more).
> > You're certainly entitled to your opinion about browsers, and I would • hardly
> > argue that both major browsers have major issues, but sometimes it almost
> > seems like you go out of your way to label one as crap while few but • Netscape
> > employees would say different about its product. :)
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> Nah, I'm well aware that NN has quite a few problems also. What steams me
> is that MS made MSIE 99% but not 100% compatible with NN. "Embrace, • extend,
> exterminate." Chairman Bill is only missing a monacle and a white cat.
;-)
Well, Netscape has sure had it's share of "we'll do it differently" also.
Frank
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| (...) A little bit, not a lot. We have MSIE4.5 and MSIE3 for MacOS here, and I can still run MSIE3 under Win32/Win95 on an old box. (...) Lowest common demominator first, then frills. (...) But it also defined the browser in the early days. MS (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I called it "bug" because IMHO it is a User Interface bug. But yeah, more objectively, it is simply an "inability." Okie dokie, here ya go, here's a page with two forms... Type text in the boxes and hit Enter. If nothing happens when you hit (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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