[thelist] Netscape 6 loads page twice

[Jacob Stetser]

You say wonderfully something I've been experiencing for a while. 
Since we started using CSS to control text presentation on sites, and 
otherwise coding to standards as a basis for later work, we've found 
that we actually have _less_ work to do to make changes. The HTML is 
cleaner, leaner and meaner.

What happens is that knowing the standards is not enough - knowing 
when and how each browser breaks them is extremely important. Then 
you don't spend hours trying to develop workarounds.

Jake

>Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers
>
>Always assuming it's more work, not less. If, as Adrian does,
>you start from a standards compliant position, you'll often
>find that it's not significantly more work. Coding for IE users
>in ideal circumstances, then having to back it out to enable
>other users to play sounds like going round the long way
>to produce a worse result to me. Like the developers on one
>site I worked on who wouldn't use <ul><li> etc for bulleted lists -
>they coded it with HTML entities cos "Macs won't display the
>bullets otherwise". Smell the bullshit...
>
>Cheers
>Martin
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