From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Or change the standards to conform to the error -not always practical but
at times might be a reasonable solution.

That way Microsoft wouldn't have to release monthly patches for 'errors'
they would just be updating the 'standards'


"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> 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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