[opendtv] Re: It's Active X, not IE

  • From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 12:04:17 +0100

So, the question of the day is: are those sites lacking in W3C compliance,
or is it the browser that is not W3C compliant?

Back a decade ago, it was IE that was not fully W3C compliant.  These days,
I believe it's Mozilla/Netscape that lacks W3c compliance.  It's been a few
years since I designed a web site and ran pages through the W3c validator,
then tested them against all common browsers, and obscure ones like the
Netscape implementations.  I found that fully W3c validated web pages would
create problems with Netscape, and not with IE.  Netscape, I was told, was
unhappy with the W3C, and so held up any "Microsoft inspired" changes in the
spec.

For me, the tipping point was with IE 3.0, the most obvious helpful feature
it offered was "auto-complete" where it remembered web sites and pages you
visited, and would complete the common ones, or offer a selection of
choices.  Apparently, Netscape, with the Mozilla and Gekko engines, never
tried to see what new things were in IE.  Because, it wasn't until Netscape
6.0 (bloatware, like all Netscape installations after 1.2) some five years
later, they offered this helpful feature.

I had been Netscape all along, until IE 3.0 made life easier.  I may want to
encourage usurpers, but not at ALL costs.

Now, Doug, to bring it back to religious differences, you are a Mac user,
no?  And, so, your computer lacks Active X compatibility, does it not?

John Willkie



-----Original Message-----
From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Doug McDonald
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 4:31 PM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: It's Active X, not IE


--- John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I find Netscape 7.1

Mozilla is not Netscape 7.1. Netscape 7.1 is
in part Mozilla, but not vice versa.

I've been using Mozilla for a couple of months
and it is really excellent. There are only a very
few sites it does not work with, including the
Ancestry.com native census viewer and the Sorenson
Molecular Genetics Foundation search page.

Doug McDonald

=====
Doug McDonald
my last name at scs dot uiuc dot edu, not here at Yahoo, please



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