HTML code that crashes IE

**fguy64** · 06-26-2009 02:26 PM

heh heh, dollars to donuts says Microsoft already has half an eye on this thread.

**jmcgowan** · 06-26-2009 02:59 PM

I hate to say it, but technically none of the major browsers are truly following the standards. The current standard is XHTML Strict. However, because the browsers refuse to support it, W3C created XHTML Transitional as a compromise, and even then support for XHTML Transitional is not at 100% yet, and W3C is preparing to release XHTML 2.0, which of course will not be fully supported by any of the major browsers, which will likely prompt an XHTML 2.0 Transitional or something just as sketchy...

All this to say - MS is about on par with everyone else as far as standards go. Now, security vulnerabilities... that's another story

**xav0989** · 06-26-2009 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by jmcgowan

I hate to say it, but technically none of the major browsers are truly following the standards. The current standard is XHTML Strict. However, because the browsers refuse to support it, W3C created XHTML Transitional as a compromise, and even then support for XHTML Transitional is not at 100% yet, and W3C is preparing to release XHTML 2.0, which of course will not be fully supported by any of the major browsers, which will likely prompt an XHTML 2.0 Transitional or something just as sketchy...

All this to say - MS is about on par with everyone else as far as standards go. Now, security vulnerabilities... that's another story

For the first part, I agree, nothing is perfect. However, IE is worst. You say it's at par with other browsers... well IE doesn't even support XHTML! If you serve XHTML content through the normal XHTML content-types, IE can't render it. However, I will render the XHTML as HTML if served with the 'text/html' content-type. Don't tell me IE is at par, it's way under, even with IE8.

Some facts