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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996 [/quote] Frankly, that statement seems to me about as dumb and short-sighted as Bill Gates' infamous statement about RAM. If one writes to the standards, but only Browser X supports the standards fully and properly, it is not the fault of the web developer if the page does not appear precisely as intended under some other browsers. And what if a standard is not specific about something such as spacing or flow and different browser vendors implement things slightly differently, but still in such a way that they conform to the standard? What about extra effects (opacity, etc.) that do not detract from content in any way even if they are not part of a standard? Superior aesthetics in one browser do NOT equate to less accessibility in another. Loading...
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