opera -- was: Re: downloading

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Thursday 12 September 2002 10:23 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I am on the opera users list.
> > I like opera a lot. I even bought the non-ad version, which is much better,
> > since those annoying banner ads go away and you have much more screen
> > space.
> > BUT
> > Opera is not fully compliant with DOM W3C. Therefore, some sites, which are
> > compliant, don't work with opera. IIE is the most compliant browser around,
> > AFAIK. I think that MS is playing the game smart. They are pushing ahead
> > and rapidly complying with the new standards coming from the W3C people
> > before the others have time to do it.
>
> I'm sorry, Joel, but this simply is as wrong as wrong can be. Mozilla is, far
> and away, the most W3C compliant browser made. MSIE6 for Mac is also supposed
> to be very good. Opera 6 is also rated rather high. IE 5 for Mac/Windows and
> IE6 for Windows are, um, not quite so good. It's interesting, though that MS
> can make a highly compliant browser for the Mac, but not for Windows.
> Hmmm.....

I also find it interesting that M$ has managed to convince people of this
fallacy.

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