This guy needs to shut up. He obviously doesn't know what he's talking about. "Any standards-compliant document should work correctly by default." Yeah, in any standards-compliant browser... The point of upgrading is to get rid of buggy software. What an idiot. Netscape 3 and IE3 are far from compliancy, and Netscape 4.x's rendering engine just sucks. "...I'm using [an old browser] for a reason." Oh yeah? What reason would that be? That's right, nothing. He didn't even bother justifying his need for outdated software. Does anyone still use DOS 1.0? No. AOL 2.0? No. Perl 4? No.
Even then, sites aren't "new-fangled" and "feature-riddled". HTML has been around since 1992 and CSS 1996. It's been at least five years and most browser-makers still haven't gotten it right. Wow, Mr. Gutfeldt (the author), way to be right on the money... This isn't about sites and documents being standards-compliant, it's the browsers. So, in that aspect, he's right. Any well-written document should look fine in any compliant browser. However, web designers have been forced to write non-standard markup and code to compensate for idiots like him who insist on using crappy software. Bad Gutfeldt, bad.
Posted by Mark Canlas at March 5, 2001 06:57 AM