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Originally posted by Exca
Then explain to me why Opera is showing a navigating frame to small which results in splitted links, and all other browsers (read safari, ie, firefox) display it correct? Maybe IE isn't to strict with displaying, but it's always displaying RIGHT, over 8 years surfing with IE i never found one page which had displaying faults , and for as fas as i'm concerned, that's the only thing that matters to me.

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Don't get so worked up over this! I'll explain...

As with anything on the Internet, HTML is standardised. Any program that supports HTML has to use the HTML standard.
Now, some browsers (Firefox, Opera et al) stick to the standards very closely. Therefore, when they operate in 'standards-compliant mode', they display HTML according to the specification. If the HTML is not standards-compliant, the browser switches to 'quirks mode', which makes a best guess.

Now, IE is different altogether. It's standards support lags behind, and sometimes is absent. This leads to standards-compliant HTML being rendered wrong i.e. not according to the standard. Since the majority of users use IE, developers then work around the flaws in IE, meaning the site can look bad in more standards-compliant browsers.


To give a prime example: the IE Box Model vs. the W3C Box Model. This image explains it all:

The W3C Box Model is the international standard here.
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