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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 18 Mar 2000 04:18:41 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
> Big deal - something doesn't work in IE3.
It's a HUGE deal. You leave a search button off a form by accident (on a page
with more than one form) and some poor user out there is up the creek without
a paddle, and probably doesn't know why, or can't switch browsers. :-(
> It wasn't an amazing feat, and I thought MS actually licensed some
> other browser or something - Mosaic, maybe?
IMHO, it was amazing and impressive that it all happened so fast -- 12-18
months or somesuch, and that it worked as well as it did, coming from MS.
> And maybe I'm getting my
> history wrong, but wasn't NN actually a clone of Mosaic?
IIRC, even as far back as NN 0.91 (then called Mozilla) was quite a ways ahead
of Mosaic. Originally, it started as a clone/rewrite but they took it it
amazing great new directions. MSIE 2 & 3 basically cloned NN at that point,
and came pretty darn close.
> Are these bugs in IE3 also? Or have you confirmed them with IE5 (or
> at least 4)?
Haven't checked 5 yet. Most are still in 4, IIRC. All were in 3. In any
case, they're all still an issue -- have to have workarounds for 'em,
wherever possible. Something like the line-break problem, though, there's
no workaround for, and I'd be surprised if MS hadn't fixed that one.
BTW, does MSIE5 finally display this graph correctly?
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5267&t=i&v=d
or is it still broken?
Dang, I can't wait for Mozilla...
--Todd
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| (...) Then *you* need to be more specific in your announcements, especially given your outspoken anti-M$ attitude. :) If you're not going to bother checking the _current_ version of IE, you need to say so. If you're talking about a bug that, to the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) This works fine with IE5. So it isn't a bug, unless you define a bug as something that didn't work 3 years ago. I'm sure we could find a lot of things in older (or current) versions of Netscape that don't work the way you or I want them to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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