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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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  Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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