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Originally Posted by Xaccers
MS don't write IE to be non W3C compliant, it is W3C compliant.
This is why IE works with all W3C compliant web sites.
It can also handle things beyond the W3C standards. If a web site requires those extra functions which are not part of the W3C standards, then it's not Microsofts fault is it?
Remember, Netscape went further than the W3C standards, but because it wasn't MS people didn't bitch about it.
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OK maybe I should say, as you rightly point out IE is compliant, but there is code around that works only with IE, but yes it is MS's fault since they actively promote such (Active X & Active scripting) so that many sites will only work with IE based browsers. Such code is outside the standards and as only MS know the code only they can engineer their browser to use it.