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echo: nthelp
to: John Beamish
from: /m
date: 2006-10-30 18:50:40
subject: Re: IE7 backing off

From: /m 

>It will be interesting to see if IE ever supports Acid2 correctly.
>Blazingly fast Opera slowed down when it was implemented,

One of the things I do to speed up browsing with Opera is to turn off
JavaScript.  Opera allows my to put the JavaScript checkbox on the toolbar,
so twiddling that setting is quick and easy.

  /m




On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:01:01 -0500, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>That's been an issue for me, too, on several occasions.  Opera does have a
>"Report a Site Problem" under Help on the menu bar.  I've
used it a couple
>of times.
>
>It's a tough call -- back off from standards (and implement
>erroneous-but-IE-equivalent rendering) or implement the standards (and
>cause users some grief).
>
>It will be interesting to see if IE ever supports Acid2 correctly.
>Blazingly fast Opera slowed down when it was implemented,  But what will
>happen with the already lethargic Firefox and IE?  I'm guessing the former
>will be even slower and the latter will never get round to it because they
>will be satisfied that rending 99% of the net in an expected (and
>possibly, even, compliant) manner will be sufficient.
>
>
>On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:29:10 -0500, Rich Gauszka 
>wrote:
>
>> My problem with Opera is that it renders results different than what I
>> would
>> expect at times. For example on the //my.yahoo.com web page - some of the
>> items that work in both IE and Firefox don't in Opera. The 'More' drop
>> down
>> under "?Help' is one of those items. While it may be good that Opera
>> implements rendering correctly if the Web site designers don't follow
>> suite
>> then Opera's advantage can be a detriment.

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