Re: [Evolution] Re: title encoding

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 18:54 +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 18:31, Pete Biggs wrote:
>
> > I'm all in favour of pragmatism, but in my view the Evo developers are
> > doing the right thing - i.e. program evo to be standards compliant
> > *first*, then where possible tweak it to cope with the shortcomings of
> > other programs.  Evo should stand out as a beacon of excellence and
> > conformity that others aspire to, not something that will always play
> > second fiddle to an MS product.
>
> Speaking as a web-developer I have to agree with this. Internet Explorer
> in one version or another on various versions of Windows is
> overwhelmingly the dominant browser. It's implementation of CSS
> (cascading style sheets) is horribly broken, especially its
> implementation of the box model which is central to the standard. When I
> write cascading style sheets I write to the W3C standard first. Then I
> add in "hacks", all sorts of workarounds which preserve the validity of
> the stylesheet and ensure that pages display properly in conforming
> browsers such as Mozilla, Konqueror, and Opera, but which also ensure
> they work in IE. It's a complete PitA. But it would be completely the
> wrong approach to say oh lets code this for Internet Explorer, and then
> see what we can do to support Mozilla et al. It would also be *more*
> difficult.

I think your analogy is the wrong way round. You try and write standard
content that browsers can read. No problem, but what I'm talking about
is being able to read non-standard content that someone else has
written. It's an entirely different fettle of kitsch :-)

poc