[thelist] RE: [ - Examples of Importing XML into Netscape or Mozilla - ]

Haag, Jason haagj at ctcgsc.org
Thu May 23 10:29:01 CDT 2002


Michael KImsal wrote:

Because IE is still the friendliest in terms of web development day
in/day out stuff (view source, view frame/page info, etc)  it's what most
people
will continue to use to test web applications.  That *is* the primary
testing platform
for everyone I know.  If there's time left to test under other platforms,
great.
Until another browser gives as many niceties to developers, other browsers
will continue to be second fiddle,
if only because of pure economics. I'll make sure something works on the dev
platform first, others second.

Mozilla in particular seems to be playing catchup/copycat more often
than not -good features still, but there are things they could put in that
they
won't, at least until after MS does, then everyone will copy them yet again.

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Jason Haag wrote:

I agree with Michael here. As such this was the reason of my post, and I'm
not PRO-MS
or PRO-Mozilla. I'm PRO-Innovation. I'm just as disgusted by Microsofts
dominance as most everyone else.
I never intended to insinuate that Mozilla wasn't application friendly, but
that MS has a lot
of dom extension 'niceties' (other than visual ones) that should probably be
standards. And I hate saying that
'dom extensions'. Actually, they are dom extension 'wannabes'. Aside from
frustration, these niceties
are warping the minds of developers.



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