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Postby Hendikins » Tue 19 Nov, 2002 7:40 pm

IE isn't that bad until you try serving it with the correct XML MIME type :-)
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Postby Shark Daddy » Tue 19 Nov, 2002 7:42 pm

Exactly... and if you serve it as text/html, what's the point?
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Postby Hendikins » Tue 19 Nov, 2002 8:06 pm

...which is EXACTLY what I mean about useragent support :)

<OT>When am I going to be able to go shark fishing on IRC again?</OT>
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Postby Antony » Tue 19 Nov, 2002 9:13 pm

Netscape is the browser that changed the world, not IE, not Opera.
JavaScript is from Netscape, SSL connection is from Netscape as well.
Netscape 6/7 supports better standards then Opera, plus it can also recognise <LAYER> tag if you really want to.

Hendikins wrote:<OT>When am I going to be able to go shark fishing on IRC again?</OT>

I thought Mr. Tinkles caught the shark last time.
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Postby Fulvio » Tue 19 Nov, 2002 10:47 pm

Shark Daddy wrote:None really... and as for browsers, Mozilla and Opera are pretty good. IE 6 isn't bad either.


Something very sensible has been said.
But why such a divergence? Is IE making things worse and worse, or is Netscape choice to be 100% adherent to w3c, when trying to be making a comeback ill-advised, or both?
The majority, out there has, probably never used Netscape, and they are not going to switch if things do not look right.
As for Opera or Netscape, I use both, and many others. IE scares me, though.
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Postby Mandrake » Tue 19 Nov, 2002 11:39 pm

Netscape is the browser that changed the world, not IE, not Opera. JavaScript is from Netscape, SSL connection is from Netscape as well. Netscape 6/7 supports better standards then Opera, plus it can also recognise <LAYER> tag if you really want to.


How do you make the <LAYER> tag work on NS6/7?
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Postby Antony » Wed 20 Nov, 2002 12:00 am

Mandrake wrote:How do you make the <LAYER> tag work on NS6/7?
Easy, all you need to do is simply visit Layer Emulation API for Mozilla and LayerEmu at mozdev.org.
(note, not really recommended for some stupid reason.)
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