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Story: Firefox? Bah Humbug, I say

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Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 29 November 2004, 3:01 PM)

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squid wrote:
"Older browsers?
Come on guys. You know that NS4x and other older browsers have no hope of supporting CSS in any meaningful way.
If you're going to use CSS, you have to assume that you're going to have terrible support for older and text-based browsers."

You cannot stop improving www technologies just because about 1 percent of viewers still use that browser from the stone age of internet. And if you use CSS correctly, you'll have the *information* on your web site viewable with NS4 too.

And as for the text based browsers you couldn't be more incorrect; they will ignore all CSS and happily display the information only.

For John Carrol:
You forget that, unlike IE, Firefox is still actively developed. So even if you can find a *real* flaw in Firefox (which you actually haven't), there is a large possibility that it'll get fixed fairly soon.

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Story: Firefox? Bah Humbug, I say

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  2. Forget Browsers getting anoyed at not being p... Samuel
  3. Bad luck about the traps inherent in standards est... Thomas Flewell
  4. You misunderstand how CSS height works. The outer... Jason Barnabe
  5. John Carrol? Bah Humbug, I say. John Carrol is one... Arthur B.
  6. Firefox measures up to the challenge: Carrol... Anonymous
  7. Well of course John Carroll says 'Bah! Humbug!'. I... Chris Rankin
  8. I agree with Chris view but, wanted to uneart... sanjay
  9. I've found you can eliminate most browser inconsis... Damien Conlon
  10. Having been involved in several e-commerce pr... David Wright
  11. The whole point of a browser is to view web pages.... Mark Jamies
  12. I have started using Firefox in the past few... Tim Jensen
  13. Older browsers? Come on guys. You know t... squid
  14. squid wrote: "Older browsers? Come... Anonymous
  15. Sentient AI is something that humans develop.... Kaisa Hannele Tervola
  16. http://yansanmo.no-ip.org:8080/test/css/bah-humbug... kwanbis
  17. Is this article simply saying that the author has... Gareth Williams
  18. John Carroll. You are a muppet. I honestly cannot... Anonymous
  19. Hi John. I read your article today. Sorry to say,... Ole Clausen
  20. To Ole Clausen, thanks for your thoughtful re... John Carroll
  21. John Carroll writes: I take it, though,... Ted Powell
  22. In other news, I suggest that the Oxford... Anonymous
  23. Save us from all the giant browsers needed for par... Ole Clausen
  24. Firefox is actually the browser that is rendering... Anonymous
  25. When using any software application, including the... Sam Alexander
  26. John Carrol writes: Likewise, as my article sugges... Adam
  27. John, you write: "As a web developer, I have to de... Ole Clausen
  28. It's about time! I know very little about web-deve... Bryan markis
  29. I am reporting you and your anti-FireFox article i... Ignatius Reilly
  30. If Firefox is a Bag umbug, what IE is? Anonymous
  31. Its Insane to judge firefox on this. The page you'... David Hyde
  32. Finally, some balance to the pointless rounds of I... Terry Pettitt
  33. The very fact that you ignore the advantages of CS... Anonymous
  34. Hi John, I wanted to let you know that I have quot... Chris Beach
  35. Like Chris, I was glad to see someone saying what... Josh Titcomb
  36. I have been using Firefox for sometime now and fou... trevor johnson
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