[Typo3-dev] Idea: Browser drivers

[Christopher]

Hi Dan,

--- dan frost <dan at danfrost.co.uk> wrote:
> Ok - what happens when the next versions of browsers come out?
> 
> Tell me that a meta-page-description isn't better than a page 
> description which works for browsers today...??!?!?!
> 
> dan

Well the *theory* (more or less borne out by most recent browser versions,
including IE6) is that if browsers actually support existing standards (in
*addition* to whatever kinds of  proprietary junk they include) then it
should continue to get easier to develop cross-browser compatible pages and
sites.

As far as I can tell, the situation for creating sites that work well in
many browsers is better now than any time since I started in this gig in
the mid-90's. I now routinely develop for IE 6, IE 5.5, IE 5.01, IE 5.2
Mac, recent verisons of Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox (Win/Linux/Mac), Safari
1.2+ and Opera 7.5+ on Windows, and the differences are usually confined to
the various ways that the different IE versions are broken. Once you have a
good knowledge of how the browsers' behaviours depart from the standards,
and how to hack around the problems, development for buggy browsers becomes
almost as easy as for good ones. And unless the forthcoming versions of IE
actually introduce *new* css bugs for properties that work *now* (though
clearly, this is a possibility), I don't see why this trend wouldn't
continue. 

So, in other words, what would drivers accomplish?


-Christopher

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