On Saturday 09 June 2001 11:26, Rick wrote:
I seem to recall that the big 'selling' feature of the WWW, and the internet for that matter, is interoperability based on standards. If the W3C publishes a standard for HTML x.x encoding, they should also publish a syntax checker for that standard, and a reference implementation of a renderer. (amaya?) IMHO, the browser-type header should be removed from the standard,, and replaced with a browser-capabilities string that refers ONLY to the version, and optional features of the standard spec itself. Maybe this will promote greater interoperability, and reduce the tendency towards browser-chauvinism that we seem to be experiencing.
Exactly right. If people / organizations would start blackballing these MSIE - only sites, maybe they'd be forced to start sticking with the standards. If someone made a Konqueror - only site, they should be blackballed too. If everyone stuck with the standards, then there would be no need to identify which browser is coming in. You'd only need to know the HTML version the browser was built for, in case maybe they're using an older browser. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 Professional KDE 2.0.1 KMail 1.1.99 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************