Re: Need advice on reliable way to identifyIE asthe browser

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/08/2008, at 3:24 AM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:

> In think 'grass roots missionary work' is a good term Nathan, but I  
> had
> assumed that you work in the area of web development? Anyone  
> involved in
> this area must develop for the  most popular browser (instead of  
> criticising
> it!)

Not true. Popularity has little to do with it. Anyone involved in  
"this area" must develop to the W3C standards. Then possibly deal  
with IE's poor implementation of those standards. No one in "this  
area" should develop using IE-specific behaviour nor should they fall  
back on the "best viewed with" trick--even for in-house web  
applications.

Criticising it is perhaps the only way to get it improved so  
development dollars aren't wasted coding for non-standard behaviour  
just 'cause it's "popular". It's one thing working around  
implementation differences--it's entirely different dealing with  
deliberately non-standard behaviour.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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