<strong>From everything that I have read, Mozilla, Netscape 6+, and MSIE are all standards compliant. Do you know something I don't?
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Coding to standards is the right thing to do for *many* reasons. However, they are all only 99% percent compliant which trips you up if you unknowingly use that 1% of the standards' specifications. Always manually check your designs in Mozilla, IE 5, 6 and Mac 5.2. Everyone else can take care of themselves.
<strong>Most people don't hnow this but the Mac already has a webbrowser integrated in the os... it's called Help Viewer (1.7.2) and is currently disguised as the help function in the os, but it is almost a full HTML browser. (no javascript or CSS support, and no perfect HTML rendering, but still...)
I've always wondered why this app is buildt this way. Is it only to make it easy for developers to make help-files, or is there more to it...?
The app TextEdit also renders HTML pages with remarkable qualitiy (for a text app). So Apple clearly has a lot of html/browser-related competence. Surely they are aware that MS might pull the plug...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Someone posted WAY above that if Apple didn't use IE as it's default browser then Microsoft wouldn't make Office for Mac anymore. Do you actually think that Microsoft is making Office for us just out of the goodness of their HUGE heart? Umm I've got news for you. Microsoft makes a butt-load of money off of us because of Office. If you are a student and use a Mac, you're pretty much forced to use Office. There isn't another alternative besides Appleworks which doesn't have as many features and isn't as compatible.
Actually, wolfeye155, it is correct that Apple was forced to include Internet Explorer for Microsoft to continue developing Office. This was part of the 5-year deal they made (which actually just ended a few months ago).
Office for Mac is certainly profitable for Microsoft, but makes not nearly as much money as Windows and all the other apps MS makes. Microsoft could pull the plug today and not be hurt at all.
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<strong>From everything that I have read, Mozilla, Netscape 6+, and MSIE are all standards compliant. Do you know something I don't?
</strong><hr></blockquote>
Coding to standards is the right thing to do for *many* reasons. However, they are all only 99% percent compliant which trips you up if you unknowingly use that 1% of the standards' specifications. Always manually check your designs in Mozilla, IE 5, 6 and Mac 5.2. Everyone else can take care of themselves.
<strong>Most people don't hnow this but the Mac already has a webbrowser integrated in the os... it's called Help Viewer (1.7.2) and is currently disguised as the help function in the os, but it is almost a full HTML browser. (no javascript or CSS support, and no perfect HTML rendering, but still...)
I've always wondered why this app is buildt this way. Is it only to make it easy for developers to make help-files, or is there more to it...?
The app TextEdit also renders HTML pages with remarkable qualitiy (for a text app). So Apple clearly has a lot of html/browser-related competence. Surely they are aware that MS might pull the plug...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Good call!
Office for Mac is certainly profitable for Microsoft, but makes not nearly as much money as Windows and all the other apps MS makes. Microsoft could pull the plug today and not be hurt at all.
[ 09-01-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>