Have to disagree with you there.
The real kick in the butt to what you're saying is that good code displays badly in Netscape and many people experience this. [sad]
Why is that when I tell my frameset to be so many pixels wide, it decides on a different, somewhat shorter, width. Same goes for the height.
Don't believe me? Go to Netscape's own pages, see how wide they've defined their own page, take a screenshot from their own browser and tell me if the dimensions are the same as what it was told to display as.
This was a real pain in the bum for me because I spent ages trying to work out why I put an image in a frame and it cuts the right hand end of the image off in Netscape but not in IE. Then I thought, well I know some of Netscape's pages use frames, I'll go over there and check out what they've done to deal with this. Well it doesn't work with
their browser on
their own site either. [img] /w3timages/icons/shocked.gif [/img] But using IE on the Netscape site and it fits perfectly. You think Netscape developers are just writing bad html code?
Then I set my textarea on w3t to 56 cols. How many characters wide can you type in with IE? 56. How many with Netscape? about 80. It pushes form boxes wide and causes horizontal scrolling on smaller screens. You have to make your boxes smaller than you want them just so Netscape users will see it properly. [img] /w3timages/icons/shocked.gif [/img]
Can I go on, how long have you got? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
Sorry, don't buy the argument that IE is only for lazy code writers. IE overtook Netscape after version 3. Most people in "the biz" would agree with that. Netscape stuffs up good code, straight out of any web design/html book. And as you can probably tell, it makes it annoying to have to knock things about to suit an inferior browser that 25% still use. Even Eileen dislikes it. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
Darren.
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