Why should all the web developers be forced into developing for multiple browsers? Aside from IE, Opera, Mozilla, etc., there are a ton of other browsers such as Web TV, AOL, and alot of no-name browsers. How can a developer be held responsible for making sure their site works on every browser. I think the browser developers should take a stand and start conforming to some standards, all of them, including Microsoft, Netscape, etc. It's like Java, anyone can develop Java and it will run on any machine because their is a common language interpreted by a JDK developed for multiple OS's. If html tags, javascript, dhtml, etc. had a common "interpreter", there would no longer be an issue. This is not Microsoft's fault, it is an industry problem caused by every browser developer's lack of conforming to a common standard, no matter what that standard may be.
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Why should all the web developers be forced into developing for multiple browsers? Aside from IE, Opera, Mozilla, etc., there are a ton of other browsers such as Web TV, AOL, and alot of no-name browsers. How can a developer be held responsible for making sure their site works on every browser. I think the browser developers should take a stand and start conforming to some standards, all of them, including Microsoft, Netscape, etc. It's like Java, anyone can develop Java and it will run on any machine because their is a common language interpreted by a JDK developed for multiple OS's. If html tags, javascript, dhtml, etc. had a common "interpreter", there would no longer be an issue. This is not Microsoft's fault, it is an industry problem caused by every browser developer's lack of conforming to a common standard, no matter what that standard may be.