Firefox, the new and better web browser ?
Monday afternoon my boss indicated me about a problem with the company website I builded. It seemed it didn't showed up like it should in Firefox, some kind of new web browser. So I did what was expected, downloaded the new web browser and looked full of expectation to the screen. And indeed the stylesheet didn't work as expected, checked out some newsgroups and the problem was known. It seemed that I was using a stylesheet that was not in accordance with the standard stylesheet specification. So I ran it through the W3C stylesheet verificator, no problem there except the gradiant specification, which is specific to IE. So why is it not showing correctly, well because there is no support to specify the width of an A tag.
Now, when I should be building a new and better web browser than the most used web browser in the world, I would make sure I at least supported the features of that web browser. I have a message to all that coders on Firefox, before you start shouting at IE, first try to write a product that is as good as IE, then you can build new features in it.
This is the problem with all kind of open source products written by a bunch of people hoping to defeat the biggest software company in the world. They concentrate on destroying the competetion instead of first building a product that as the same features and then improving it. They look like poor "Civilization" players, going to battle with a stick while the enemy is using nuclear force.
And you guys that are giving the software away to make my life easier, remember this : because you wrote a web browser that doesn't support the features of IE, I need to rewrite the website. And don't argue that IE doesn't support the standard, if there are new features then the standard is lacking and that can't stop progress.
Back to the drawing board, Firefox coders !!!