[Building Sakai] IE 8

[Stephen Swinsburg]

Finally got around to reading that article and wading through the guff  
about Martians... The main point I got from it was:

<quote>
....there are all these web pages out there with errors, because all  
the early web browser developers made super-liberal, friendly,  
accommodating browsers that loved you for who you were and didn’t care  
if you made a mistake. And so there were lots of mistakes.
</quote>

Perhaps the Internet would be a better place if HTML+CSS was treated  
more like almost every other programming language and had some syntax  
checking. Try viewing a broken XML document in any good browser, it  
won't work. Browser developers have been far too lenient in the past  
allowing poorly written HTML to work. Make *ALL* HTML+CSS conform to a  
standard just like a real programming language MUST, and order will  
soon  be restored to the Internet.

cheers,
Steve



On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Sean Keesler wrote:

 > Funny isn't it?
 > The new value of IE will be its backwards compatibility with poorly
 > constructed pages that rendered well in previous lousy IE versions.
 >
 > Round and round....
 >
 > ---Sean

Here's an excellent article by Joel Spolsky about why browser
developers may not want to be idealists when it comes to Web standards:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html

 >> As usual, the idealists are 100% right in principle and, as usual,
 >> the pragmatists are right in practice. The flames will continue for
 >> years. This debate precisely splits the world in two. If you have a
 >> way to buy stock in Internet flame wars, now would be a good time
 >> to do that.

cheers,
Zach


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