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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Richard Maher wrote:
> Hi Arne,
> 
> "Arne Vajhøj" <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
> news:4b53ca5d$0$273$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk...
>> On 14-01-2010 08:07, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> In article<4b4e8718$0$282$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
>>> Arne Vajhøj<arne at vajhoej.dk>  writes:
>>>> On 13-01-2010 21:31, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> Opera 10 also passed.
>>>>
>>>> IE8 will most likely never pass ACID3. It will be IE9.
>>> And if you are writting web pages that use features of ACID3 that IE
>>> doesn't do and you competitor is not who is going to pay the price?
>>> The target should be your desired audience and not some obscure ivory
>>> tower standard.
>> It is very good to follow the standards.
> 
> Ah yes, and doesn't DEC have a rich history of not only following but
> leading the charge with standards such as DECnet/OSI?

There was nothing much wrong with DECnet/OSI except for NCL!  And, of 
course, the NCL documentation.  If you didn't have to configure and 
manage it we could probably be using it today.  That and the fact that 
it was a solution looking for a problem to solve!

<snip>

Has IP V6 made any progress?  I haven't heard much about it for the last 
  four or five years!