that the claim is ridiculous (talk about numbers plucked from the air!) IE -does- render normal pages correctly without any fuss.
The HTML standard is fairly loose anyway, so a bit a variance between browsers is permissible. Valid HTML or XHTML will render most acceptably. I am at a loss to think of a single example where IE will unequivocally fail (I'm sure there is, though).
The CSS support is more flaky. But this is true of Firefox, too (although in different ways). There are times when the CSS standard itself doesn't make any sense. Sometimes it's ambiguous. So, the browsers just do what they want, extend it, ignore some bits, and so on. The irony is, Firefox is just as guilty of extending standards as IE is.
If you restrict yourself to the subset of CSS suported fully by all browsers, then, again, you will be very unlucky to experience any problems at all. |
