I haven't seen any real discussion on compliance, but MS Critical Update 813489 (MS03-15) for IE breaks some CSS functionality as a trade off for security.
MS Knowledge Base 820575 discusses problems with Outlook also > -----Original Message----- > From: Aryan Ameri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Good Open Source Web Development software > > > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:10:45AM -0400, lists1 wrote: > > > It works heavily toward w3c standard compliant > code (and if you > > > look at the top 100 sites, I doubt 10% of them > are 100% standards > > > compliant, and if you have 100% standards > compliant, you'll be > > > excluding over 90% of the browser users on the internet). > > > > No you wouldn't, because all the browsers out can > decently render a > > 100% compliant page. I've yet to find a browser that can't. > > I'm afraid this is not the case Paul. IE is not > always able to render > fully compliant pages, in a decent way. > > IE on Windows does not support CSS completely. Even > IE 6 does not > support CSS 1. > > About 3 months ago, I asked on this list, about how > to develop a good > personal web site (something similar to the current > tread). I got > plenty of usefull advice, and in the end, I decided > to heavily use CSS > on my web site. Cause it really looks great. > > The end result is amazing. I didn't know that I could > achive so much by > using CSS. The problem is, IE does not show the > pages, as it should. My > site is fully W3C compliant. I have used Tidy on it, > and also checked > it with validator. So I thought I won't have browser > compatibility > problems. I was wrong, I later found out, that IE > does not fully > support CSS, so it is handling my web site in a > really bad way. > > Interestingly, IE 5 for Mac seems to support CSS 1 > fully. IE 5 on Mac > does a good job of rendering my pages (comparable to > khtml and gecko > based browsers). IE 5 for Mac OS X also suport PNG > transparency, > something that IE 6 on Windows lacks. > > To sum it up, yes, it is possible to easily design a > fully W3C compliant > web page, which IE is not able to handle correctly. > Two years ago, I > would have ignored this problem, arguing that many > people are using NS. > But, nowadays, how can I convice myself to ignore 90% ? > > Cheers > -- > /* There's some good left in this world, Mr. Frodo, > and it's worth > fighting for." > - Sam Gamgee*/ > Aryan Ameri > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
