I figured as much. Oddly, when I got out out of the WinXP machines
everything with regard to webmail worked fine.
>
>> So who is it that's making us victims in a high stakes browser
>>war? Microsoft? Google? Mozilla?
>
>
>As Moose outlined it's the web developers...
>
>There is more factor, though - the development environment...
>
>Many development tools are optimised for one or another browser family.
>An ancient example was M$ Frontpage, that produced code that
>(naturally!) worked best with IE, and barely worked in some other
>browsers. Nowadays it's the dynamic content management software with
>cascading style sheets. The developers provide the CSS so the 'look and
>feel' of the page is preserved, unfortunately in many cases the CSS is a
>bug-ridden abomination.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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