[Ti] [OT] Microsoft to quit web browsers for Mac

[David Remahl]

On söndag, jun 15, 2003, at 17:43 Europe/Stockholm, Steve Wozniak wrote:

> At 5:11 PM +0200 6/15/03, David Remahl wrote:
>
>> Internet Explorer
>> Camino
>> FireBird
>> Netscape
>> Mozilla App Suite
>> Safari
>> Opera
>>
>> All but the first subscribe to the same ideology that the web should 
>> be based on standards. They adhere to the W3C recommendations as good 
>> as they can, and compete by offering different user experiences 
>> instead of competing by creating new and fancy in-house "standards".
>
> iCab has adhered to standards for the longest time, for both MacOS 9 
> and OS X. iCab has the clean look and feel of Safari, and, as a 
> replacement for IE, eliminates the regular MacOS 9 crashes.
>
> It's web developers who don't adhere to W3C standards. With iCab you 
> have a button to report obvious HTML syntax errors, like orphan 
> closing tags, instantly for any page. When you use iCab and this 
> feature, you come to realize how far web designers are from 
> professional. They get something to work with IE on a PC and ship it.
> -- 
>
> Regards,
> Steve  (is tv wake zone?)

Yes, I know, and sorry for forgetting to mention iCab...

I recently thought of what Apple should do with the Bug button in the 
toolbar once the program is out of beta. Making it send a note to 
webmaster at site.com would probably be efficient.

/ Rgds, David

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