Galloway accused of breaching protocol

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:41 am

major.tom wrote:
faceless wrote:the site works ok in IE, but that's no excuse...
Another webpage made for ie only. Another reason not to like him.

Yeah, cos it's soooo the fault of IE that websites actually work in it. They must be doing something terribly wrong.

Post by **faceless** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:52 am

A professional web-designer isn't worth their salt if they don't make things work on as many browsers as possible... but then, that site is all HTML, so it's no surprise really.

major.tom · Post by **major.tom** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:38 am

nekokate wrote:Yeah, cos it's soooo the fault of IE that websites actually work in it. They must be doing something terribly wrong.

Actually, it is. If you write a browser that isn't compatible with the HTML standard, then bundle it on millions of PC's for free, it's natural that people will test with the browser already on the PC and not with any more standards-compliant browsers. So if web pages only test on ie, they're only bolstering M$'s dominant market position.

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:08 pm

Hehe, I knew that would get people going.

major.tom · Post by **major.tom** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:24 pm

A wind-up artist, eh?

O.K. You got me.

seshme · Post by **seshme** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:43 am

faceless wrote:It's not the point about observing protocol that bothers me - but the fact that GG complained about the very same thing not too long ago.

Wow good post I apologise, I thought you were maybe just a GG fanboy.