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I happen to think Joe is right on this issue.  The "standards" do not 
include a fundamental feature required for building a good user experience 
in a web application - rich event handling in JavaScript.  Microsoft, on 
the other hand, does include this feature in their implementation of the 
DOM in IE.

I could be wrong, but I believe Joe has said in the past that his 
application will work with other browsers, the UI simply will not include 
all of the features that it does with IE.  For example, IE users can use 
FKey shortcuts, and text that should be upper-cased or numeric-only will 
be handled automatically in IE, but not Mozilla.  As long as he properly 
validates/reformats the input on the server so that non-IE browsers can be 
used, what is wrong with including IE-specific functionality that can 
improve the application?


Mark









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Joe, it isn't religious. Its history. Ask the folks at Lotus 1-2-3 and
WordPerfect.
 
I didn't say "if it's not in Mozilla, it's bad." 
 
I say if its Microsoft it will hurt me professionally someday. Knowing how
much effort you have put into your product it flabbergasts me that you are
so quick & ready to put your head in that noose. 
 
---------------------------------------------------------
Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:44:34
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: LINUX Workstations
 
> From: Booth Martin
>
> By swallowing their bait you are only furthering the eventual
> demise of your own product.
 
See, this is getting religious. Your argument has degraded to "if it's
not in Mozilla, it's bad."
 
Booth, what I'm doing is giving my clients the best possible product.
You and everybody on this list should realize that that is the single
thing we do. If you want to make Mozilla competitive, join the Open
Source development group and add the event filtering logic. Better yet,
join the standards team and get them to actually write standards that
mean something in the real world.
 
Joe

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