I was afraid this would turn into one of those "why doesn't everybody code for Microsoft's latest-and-not-yet-stable-products NOW!" threads.
The IE factor is well know in the professional web development sector. It is estimated that IE adds 25-35% to the cost of developing a standards compliant site. From my experience,the latter figure is closer to the mark. I can produce validating html and css that renders almost identically in every browser *except* IE. I then have to spend a significant amount of blood, sweat,tears and client money making it render properly on each and every version/platform combination of IE5.0, 5.5, 6.0 on Windows/Mac. Unfortunately, because every previous version of IE is nowhere near standards compliance, style sheets have to be filled with various cunning hacks to overcome the IE's bugs and design flaws so although IE7 is closer to standards compliance, it now receives some/all of the hacks that were aimed at it's anti-social ancestors. This is not 'lame excuses', this is the reality of web development.We have had to live with it for years. It *is* Microsoft's fault. Period. Had they implemented the W3C standards fully and correctly, we would not be having this 'discussion'. Opera,Safari/Konquerer, Mozilla/Firefox and may others all managed to do it (within a whisker), so why couldn't the world's largest software company even get close? Why also, did it wait 5 (yes, five) years before updating their browser when it was causing such significant cost to their customers? Do you think they cared until Firefox got a foothold? Onemind, (kind of ironic choice), if this is not the reality you see, then please do a little research: http://www.alistapart.com/ http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html http://www.gnu.org/ ~GreyCells (apologising profusely to the group for responding) P.S. OpenSource != FreeSoftware --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
