From: "Daniel P. Zepeda" <daniel@...>
Date: 2003-01-13T12:35:00+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: IE blatantly defiant of HTML standards

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:24:04 +0900
Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> wrote:

> 
> so i'm developing a huge web app in Ruby and i've been using Mozilla. i
> have been very careful to reduce potential cross-compatability issues.
> so i go to run the app on IE to see how it fairs, and right off the bat
> i get an error. turns out that IE does not submit a <button> tag's value
> attribute, but rather tries to submit the entire innerHTML of the
> button! yes, that's right, the whole content, no matter what it is,
> <img>, <table> whatever. how idiotic! i did a bit of research and this
> was supposed to be fixed by IE5.5. well i just installed IE6 and it
> still does it. It is such an obvious error that it amounts to a BLATANT
> disregard for standards.
> 
> so to hell with them. unless someone shows me a way to fix IE, my app is
> simply not going to work on it and i don't care.

Welcome to the real world of web programming. I feel you. Once you get
some sleep and get over it, realize that you are cutting yourself off from
a huge segment of web users if you blow off IE. I'm sure you can find a
way around it. I've seen other posts from you and you seem to be a bright
guy. 

> 
> sorry, to rant, but i needed an outlet.
> 
> thanks,
> tom sawyer, aka transami
> transami@transami.net
> 
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