Re: [tlug] Why Vista Sucks (was: linux: it's becoming ubiquitous)

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:28:39 -0700, "SL Baur" <steve@example.com> wrote:

> The IE8 article isn't bad, but completely misses the point.

Furthermore, the author was trying to make the point that you can't write a
browser that's supposed to behave in a standards-compliant way when the
standards don't actually say how a page using those standards is supposed
to render.

Well, I can think of two examples straight away where the standard *does*
describe what the browser is supposed to do -- one of which with a pretty
drawing for those who can't read -- and IE doesn't do it right if at all.

1) IE's flawed box model (that's the one with the drawing)

2) Centreing HTML content (they've fixed it in the XHTML rendering engine
apparently) in CSS with `style="margin: whatever auto;"'

I can understand partly why alphablending in PNG files doesn't work with IE
unless you resort to IE-specific CSS and the DirectX engine, merely because
I do believe that there's nothing in the W3C standards that says that
alphablending should work by simply importing such an image with an <img>
tag. However, c'mon, don't people *expect* it to work like it does in every
other GUI browser under the sun?

-- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@example.com

"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."

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