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Re: [OM] OT: Musical Browsers

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Musical Browsers
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 06:21:14 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     I figured as much.  Oddly, when I got out out of the WinXP machines 
everything with regard to webmail worked fine.

>
>>      So who is it that's making us victims in a high stakes browser 
>>war?  Microsoft?  Google?  Mozilla?
>
>
>As Moose outlined it's the web developers...
>
>There is more factor, though - the development environment...
>
>Many development tools are optimised for one or another browser family.
>An ancient example was M$ Frontpage, that produced code that
>(naturally!) worked best with IE, and barely worked in some other
>browsers. Nowadays it's the dynamic content management software with
>cascading style sheets. The developers provide the CSS so the 'look and
>feel' of the page is preserved, unfortunately in many cases the CSS is a
>bug-ridden abomination. 
>

Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson


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