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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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Date: 
Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:42:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
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.

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.


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.

Lowest common demominator first, then frills.


Well, Netscape has sure had it's share of "we'll do it differently" also.

But it also defined the browser in the early days.  MS squashed that, and now
nobody defines it.  :-/

--Todd



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(...) IE 4.5 on the Mac almost approaches the level of non sucking. Stay away from Outlook Express, though. I honestly can't believe you're making broad sweeping comments about "braindead bugs" in a program that you don't even have available for (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) IE on (...) <- 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 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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