On 7/2/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
My thoughts on this issue is that, a site can either be standards complaint and break IE ( the major browser ) to a great deal or it can play nice with IE and still work correctly with browsers like Firefox, Mozilla, Opera etc... If you are a webdev and have even little experience developing websites professionally then you will know for sure that being idealistic( 100% standards compliant ) isn't going to get you anywhere cuz the client's going to dump ya before you can say "wait..." :P So being a pragmatist is gonna see that you survive. You need to have the right blend of standards compliance, hacks and dirty html to satisfy your clients ;)
You're assuming that standards compliance breaks HTML for IE. It's true in some cases, but not all. And the places where this problem occurs (IE vs standards or Firefox vs standards) there generally are workarounds, as an experienced web developer would know.
My approach has been to first write code that works on IE and Firefox more or less identically and then spend a little time changing little things here and there to make sure my code validates without breaking anything.
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Siddhesh