[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

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In article <7r8j3oF3qnU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>In article <00A97820.3EB74593 at sendspamhere.org>,
>	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>> In article <4b4e7946$0$279$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>On 13-01-2010 08:50, AEF wrote:
>>>> I actually tried IE8 at work, hoping it would be better than IE6. But
>>>> it was blurrier on the monitor. I checked it on others' machines and
>>>> the blurriness varied, and all the monitors were ViewSonics. (I did
>>>> only check 2 or 3 others, but mine was blurrier than IE6 and that's
>>>> all that really mattered to me.) So I went back to IE6. And I did
>>>> check if you could do that before I tried IE8. It turns out that all
>>>> you have to do is uninstall it, except that a certain OS patch would
>>>> get in the way if you have it and you'd have to uninstall that first,
>>>> then reinstall after expunging IE8 from your machine.
>>>>
>>>> I do have Firefox installed at work and I use that for some sites, but
>>>> others work better on IE6. Hate the spastic Find function in IE6, but
>>>> at least you can use it to highlight a link, or get near it with an
>>>> easier target and then tab to the link, and without the mouse just
>>>> press Return and it works! Safari can't do that, but Safari is better
>>>> with multiple choice items in forms and for printing. Safari puts all
>>>> the print params on a single page! I've never understood why all the
>>>> important things like page size, orientation, number of copies,
>>>> certain things on the Page Setup dialog box and such aren't all in one
>>>> place. WHY THE HELL DON'T THEY PUT THEM ALL IN ONE PLACE LIKE SAFARI
>>>> DOES? Arghhhh.
>>>
>>>IE6 is pretty bad in AJAX context due to its deviation
>>>from the standards. IE8 is a lot better. It actually passed
>>>ACID2.
>> 
>> Let me know when it can pass ACID3.  AFAIK, only Safari does so.  Firefox is
>> close.  It gets to 93/100.
>
>Why should anyone care?  It is good business to make sure your web
>pages work with as many browsers as possible and not just with some
>obscure standard. It is customers being able to see your web page
>that makes sales, not some claim that you wrote your page to comply
>with ACID3.
>
>Too many people in this profession have lost site of the core value.
>The computer needs to adapt to the user, not the user to the computer.

In that case, all web pages should be HTML 2.0 *ONLY*.  Forego the 
Javascript, DOM, and other extensions.

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