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Re: wine and IE



On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney
wrote:
> > In general, people who think of the way pages are "intended to be seen"
> > are missing the point of the web. Will your pixel-perfect design look
> > the way you intended it to look on my PDA? The standards emphasize
> > semantic markup, not physical markup, and leave the details of rendering
> > up to the browser where they belong. CSS merely provides hints.
> 
> I completely agree. But that's not the issue.

Actually, it's the entirety of the issue.  Webmasters, especially
commercial websites, *NEED* to learn this fact.  I say especially
commercial websites because if they don't bother to shape up, there's
really no customer demand for the browser vendors to figure it out.
As long as the site itself works, stick to the standard and let the
user worry about how it renders.  The user has the browser, the
browser has the burden of rendering the page.  If the user doesn't
like how pages render in that browser, the user should ditch it.

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