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Subject: Re: Web Sites
From: Aaron Whiteman <aaronw@wsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:00:36 -0800
On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 12:49  PM, TeriAnn Wakeman wrote:
> Not good web sites.  Good web sites are designed to follow industry
> standards AND the microsoft deviations from the standards.

This is getting more and more off topic, but I have to mention that 
the reason websites are starting to go NS6 only is because 
Netscape < 6 has nothing to do with industry standards (in that the 
"standard" defined by netscape is no more industry standard than 
the "standard" defined by microsoft).  Netscape 6 was developed to 
strictly conform to industry standards (which is part of the reason 
why it has taken so long to be usable), where the older Netscape 
browsers were piles and piles of cruft added on to the original NS 
.9/1.1 code (which wasn't standard then either).

Quite simply, as a browser Netscape 4.x sucks rocks.  That said, 
HTML is supposed to degrade nicely, so well written websites 
_should_ still work.
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