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From: Dr Syd Nicholson <sydnic@ccs400.com>
> I don't have the luxury of IE, because, I do not want to have a
> dedicated Windows system only used for the purpose of Web Browsing. I
> need to use alternative browsers, and I need web developers to support
> those browsers.

browsers suffer from the "installed" base syndrome. A browser has no
chance if it cannot render all of the millions of poorly constructed web
pages
that exist.  All these web-pages set a de facto standard that cannot be
ignored. You can say a million times hat your browser is fully W3C
compliant. That doesn't mean squat if my existing pages break.
You have to be backwards compatible even if it is to crap.
This is the sad truth.
One reason OS/2 died was that in the critical initial phase it didn't
run old DOS programs well. Remember the "DOS penalty box"?




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