[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“Recently Microsoft Internet Explorer has come under fire from
web standards groups and from numerous HTML designers and other
“Web” people. What they are doing is nothing new in the world of
web browsers….”
“Netscape released Navigator/Communicator version 4.0 in
1998 to much fanfare but with little regard for the standards.
CSS 1.0 has been out since 1996 and HTML 4.0 since 1997, yet
Netscape 4.0 does not fully support either standard. Instead they
offered an editor, enhanced email and usenet utilities and other
things a web browser doesn’t need. And more proprietary stuff like
JavaScript.”
“Netscape 4.0 is a pain for those designing web sites. By not
supporting many of the standards valid HTML and CSS doesn’t show up
or if it does it doesn’t work properly. this hinders the ability of
designers to balance form and function.”