By Mary-Jo Foley
Published: Friday 13 June 2008
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Richard A
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Bloke
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Hopefully this will have positive fallout for Safari users who currently suffer all manner of incompatibilities with badly coded sites.
Since most developers only ever test on the far-from-standards-compliant IE, it seems many sites are tailored for the quirks and idiosyncrasies of Microsoft's browser. The result is that Safari misrenders many of these poorly coded, non-standards compliant sites.
Apple's response has always been that Safari is standards compliant and it is the rest of the world that should change. Nothing new there...
Maybe, if IE - the de facto standard (natch) - starts to conform to official web standards, web developers will finally be forced to write proper code that works on a range of browsers, not just boring old clunky Internet Explorer.
Web 1.1 here we come...?
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