The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84991   Message #1572108
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
29-Sep-05 - 11:04 AM
Thread Name: Moses and The Ref - new website
Subject: RE: Moses and The Ref - new website
Hi Steve,

Well it works great in Opera but Mozilla still has white on white type but the pix are pretty (well, Christine is anyway!) A good argument for standards compliant browsers, no?

As someone once said, IE works according to a complicated system of string, bogies and half-arsed guesses whereas Mozilla works to pre-defined standards and, unfortunately, because of Gates Inc's near monopoly of the browser market, the string-bogies-guesses model has become a de facto standard and sites written to work on IE often appear broken for standards compliant browsers. This wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for the fact that the IE rendering can't do a lot of the advanced functions that the stardards can. The internet would look positively beautiful if authors didn't have to dumb their pages down to IE's standards.

One more quibble: Tom Waits (without an E).

Diane