You can't coun't active-x because it's a plugin.
mybad. Should have coughed "DOM" or "jscript/javascript".
Also it doesn't matter that some ie functions don't comply to the standard, because unlike netscape conventions, the page will still load properly.
Huh.
It seems like you are saying the equivelent of "Doesn't matter that the Windows software isn't cross-platform, because unlike on a Mac, it runs in Windows"
If you meant to say "IE displays non html standard pages better than Netscape", you need to add: "... if it follows the IE html convention."
Also it doesn't matter that some ie functions don't comply to the standard, because unlike netscape conventions, the page will still load properly. Netscape has a "oh my god bad code let's crap all over ourselves" Mentality, while ie, and it's looking like mozillia simply ignore the offending lines of code and can often make a good guess as to what it's gonna do.
Which netscape are you talking about here? Netscape 7.0 is mozilla + a different skin + email & junk. Seems like you almost said that netscape 7.0 makes "a good quess at to what it gonna do," at the same time as "oh my god bad code let's crap all over ourselves".
Can you link to a couple of these pages?
The only pages I have problems with (on netscape 7) are those with javascript or cgi that basically say "if not IE, don't load the page correctly."
Example:
http://www.kpmg.ca/english/news discription:
http://www.webstandards.org/#a000091 quote "the problem is outdated, brain-dead browser detection and related scripting."
fixed page:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/fixed/kpmg/ Just a simple change in the scripts.
Every time the internet standard is updated (which is rarely anymore) all (or at least most) of the added ie features are included while many of the more obscure netscape ones are removed. Why? Because weather you like it or not m$ makes the better browser at this point and their additions make more sense than some of the "unique" features netscape and other browsers include in their language.
First, I don't want unique junk, I want conformity (I'm talking html only, thou'
).
Second, change your first sentence to "... (which is rarely anymore)
most of the added features has been IE features ..."; a lot of the IE stuff have been and are still left out.
There are so many "IE only" features that a fraction can account for so much of the changes. With MS going so low and claiming one of their features was added even if the W3 feature just does the same thing but uses different terms/words/methods, many people think W3 adopted the IE way when it wasn't really.
Note that mozilla (& netscape 6/7) have also dropped all the netscape 4.x and before unique junk you probably are talking about (remember <blink>? yuck). However, the more recent w3.org upgrades (html 4, xhtml and since) have excluded more IE only than netscape 4 only (because IE has so much more unique junk to exclude). I think 100% of netscape 4 junk was left out, but does not come close to the huge volume of IE junk left out / dropped.