Message Forum: Re: Internet Explorer and Family

Re: Internet Explorer and Family

Posted By: codeman38, on host 209.172.229.10
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 16:38:57
In Reply To: Re: Internet Explorer and Family posted by Ria on Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 15:38:16:

> > Why do people use Internet Explorer or
> > Outlook?
>
> Because, to put it frankly, Netscrape sucks for
> design purposes.
>
> There's so much more you can do with IE, and so
> much more dynamically, than with Netscape.
> Absolute positioning works like it's supposed to
> in IE. You can actually remove table borders.
> CSS is just more expansive in IE than in NS.

That's true for Netscape 4-- which I, too, absolutely detest for those same reasons. But versions 6 and 7 are based on open-source Mozilla code, and from my experience, most of the Nifty CSS Tricks you mention work quite well in Moz.

-- codeman"mozilla fan"38

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Message:	> > > Why do people use Internet Explorer or > > > Outlook? > > > > Because, to put it frankly, Netscrape sucks for > > design purposes. > > > > There's so much more you can do with IE, and so > > much more dynamically, than with Netscape. > > Absolute positioning works like it's supposed to > > in IE. You can actually remove table borders. > > CSS is just more expansive in IE than in NS. > > That's true for Netscape 4-- which I, too, absolutely detest for those same reasons. But versions 6 and 7 are based on open-source Mozilla code, and from my experience, most of the Nifty CSS Tricks you mention work quite well in Moz. > > -- codeman"mozilla fan"38
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