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Three questions

  1. Extend or reinvent?
  2. Theoretical or practical?
  3. Netscape Navigator 4.x or Internet Explorer 6.x?

15th August 2004

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  1. Three questions, and you gave an unordered list

    1. reinvent
    2. practical
    3. Netscape

    Permalink · 2004-08-15 23:13:29 · Mario De Zutter

    1. extend
    2. practical
    3. Netscape (why not 7?)

    Permalink · 2004-08-16 07:28:25 · Guido

    1. Where would we be when nobody reinvents? Somebody's gotta look into to future. But for now I appreciate WHATWG more.
    2. Practical, always, but not necessarily WHATWG.
    3. IE6.0, because NS4 just sucks. (They haven't lost the browser war for no reason!) IE6.x is a whole different thing. ;-)

    Permalink · 2004-08-16 09:07:32 · Robbert Broersma

  4. Mario, good point.

    Guido, Netscape 7 doesn't support either MULTICOL or SPACER.

    Permalink · 2004-08-16 09:27:13 · Anne

    1. extend
    2. practical
    3. Internet Explorer 4.0 :p

    Permalink · 2004-08-16 09:32:08 · Jerome

    1. Both
    2. Both
    3. Neither

    :P

    Permalink · 2004-08-16 11:21:21 · Sander

    1. Extend
    2. Both
    3. IE 6.0

    Permalink · 2004-08-16 13:40:00 · Christoph Wagner

    1. Reinvent (but sometimes extending is okay, too, especially if you're doing the two together)
    2. Practical (with a dash of theoretical thrown in, or brilliant ideas -- like the web itself -- would never see the light of day)
    3. IE 6 (For all the pains that IE brings, you can at least workaround most of its security lapses by changing security levels. You can't workaround the Netscape 4 costs (crashes, JS bugs, poor CSS), making its extended features an unjustifiable tradeoff.)

    Permalink · 2004-08-16 18:31:41 · Keith

    1. Extend
    2. Practical
    3. IE 6.x

    Now I'm puzzled as to why asking three questions should be in an ordered list. IMHO, I'd say they're an unordered list because the questions could be asked in any order without losing the point. Whereas all of us answering, should use an ordered list. Anything else, really doesn't make sense to me.

    Permalink · 2004-08-17 04:03:44 · Devon

    1. Both
    2. Both
    3. Neither! :-)

    I prefer practicality above theory, but some practical things did actually spawn from theories. I think many aspects of science began as theories, and without those we might not have been sitting with computers here today. :-)

    Permalink · 2004-08-17 10:10:43 · Charl van Niekerk

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