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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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Sat, 18 Mar 2000 06:04:12 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
[...]
Plus, MS hasn't even released MSIE for my operating system, so I couldn't run
it on my main system even if I wanted to.  I keep an old system around for
regression tests.  Just fixed something yesterday in fact which was still a
problem in MSIE3 for some users.

Errk, too many pints this evening.  That should say, (not that anyone cares),
"I keep an old _Windows_ system around for regression tests before cutting in
major new code changes."  I don't run Windows daily anymore, but it's still
very important to support the NN & MSIE browsers on Win32.  Suzanne runs NN
4.6x on MacOS9 and also has MSIE3 & MSIE4.5 for testing.  We also have Win98
plus whatever MSIE shipped with that, for additional tests.

--Todd



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  Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
 
(...) Generally, it seems like a good idea to me to test more heavily on older browsers when backward compatibility is crucial, since the rendering and UI type of bugs tend to go away rather than to appear over time. Obviously you can't test (...) (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
 
(...) Yes, partially that. But I still prefer Mozilla 4.7 (a.k.a. Netscape Navigator 4.7) and the Milestone versions of Mozilla 5 over any MSIE, just on principle. Plus, MS hasn't even released MSIE for my operating system, so I couldn't run it on (...) (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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