What are the differences and issues between Netscape and IE?
This question is normally asked in conjunction with the question: How do I get my page to look identical in both browsers. Apart from the obvious – there is no such thing as both browsers – since the user has a choice of close to 600 browsers. Typically, this question comes from designers that haven’t quite got the grasp of the essence of hypertext media and its related HTML markup. HTML, by design, is a structural document markup. Document structure, not layout. With that in mind, HTML is seen as not a high level precision layout language, although Cascading Stylesheets give the web designer the ability to precisely position objects, with certain limitations. On the basic level, the difference between Netscape and Internet Explorer is that Internet Explorer is more forgiving of markup errors. This forgiveness is a double-edged sword, in that Internet Explorer will not render what you ask, but render what it guesses you want to see. Normally this works out pretty well, but on the wrong
