IE in FreeBSD?

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Wed Sep 14 20:21:50 PDT 2005



>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Roger Merritt
>Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:09 PM
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD?
>
>
>At 19:22 14/9/2005 -0700, Garret Cooper wrote:

>>>You don't mention *why* you need IE.  Stating why might help
>>>someone provide a better alternative.
>>
>>     The reason why I can see using IE is the ridiculous requirement
>>made by many software vendors and website designers that custom
>>tailor their content to use either ActiveX (Valve's CS and CS:S for
>>example) or certain features only available in IE, or they are just
>>plain lazy and don't want to make their content Mozilla friendly.
>>-Garrett
>
>I don't think you mean "Mozilla friendly", I think you mean 
>"according to 
>accepted standards." I would be suspicious of anyone selling 
>software who 
>was too unaware of web standards to follow standards in their web site 
>(well, I would except someone who used tables rather than CSS 
>to lay out a 
>page -- I can forgive that). Frankly, there are so many web 
>sites offering 
>information I need that I don't really have time to worry about 
>those sites 
>that require IE. I'm already suffering overload.
>

Let's quit beating around the bush, shall we?  The only vendor that
custom tailors their content to IE and who will not correct gross
HTML coding errors on their website and in their products is Microsoft.

Everybody else, if you wave cash in front of them and say "I will buy
your product once you fix these gross html errors your product spews
out" they will get real interested in fixing them, all the sudden.

Ted


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