In a perfect universe...

[petronia]

..."standards compliancy" and "looks the way it's supposed to in both IE and Opera" would be identical goals, wouldn't they?

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[ex-radicaled804.livejournal.com]

In an ideal world. And I actually think it might be true.

But unfortunately, a lot of standards-compliant stuff looks like CRAP in NS4. Frikking NS4. >.

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

Don't you *hate* that? the only time that "standards compliant", "valid HTML" and "looks good in all browsers" coincide is on very simple pages. :(

[sjdr.livejournal.com]

... define 'supposed to'?

I mean, that's the biggest issue I have with the whole web design thing.
Different rendingering engines/routines/code... different visual appearance! Okay, theoretically we're all using libwww. But.

It's sort of like the non-deterministic/pixies thing: for "looks pretty" read "looks like a high-color glossy Wired insert".

OOC, what is it barfing on?

[niqaeli]

Merf, true.

This would be why I bust my ass writing clean HTML and check in most browsers. There's a reason I use only a few images and mostly tables.