A plug (not plugin) for opera

[Net Llama!]

*sigh*
so, since M$ lied, cheated & stole their way into a dominant position, 
just give in and accept your fate.  why are we wasting our time running 
linux?  afterall, M$ already won that battle too.

Joel Hammer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:28:25AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>Its only good if you want all browsers to handle the highly-nonstandard
>>javascript in the same way as IE.  Since there is no standard, there is no
>>'right' way to do it.
> 
> 
> I think there are right ways and wrong ways to write javascript. I am
> using only javascript which is supposed to be standard, and avoiding
> anything which is unique to one browser or another.
> 
> And, I think that as much as some people may hate the idea, MS is the
> de facto standard in browsers. Not because it is so good, but because
> it is universal; so, one might as well write to it in javascript. It
> would be great if all browser designers emulated IE, then, we would all be
> compatible and web designers wouldn't have a nightmare on their hands.
> I have noticed that the websites I looked at recently do no have much
> in the way of specific coding for non IE browsers. The browser war is
> pretty much over. Either be IE compatible or die.
> 
> Let's not forget that IBM created the PC revolution with its PC, simply
> by providing a standard which everyone followed. As I recall, IBM was
> severely punished when it tried to walk away from its own standards.
> (Microchannel, wasn't it?)
> Joel
> 
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