Interesting wrt switching from IIS to Solaris as web server

[John Macdonald]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:33:14PM +0200, Peter wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> In general, with the exception of a few borg affiliates (dell, compaq - 
> whose laptops are notorious for driver problems when running linux), and 
> a few (non-us! - because most us government sites seem to run Apache!) 
> government websites, there is no IIS on the web. [ ... ]
> [ ... ]
> Now, knowing this, how come there are so many websites that require an 
> Explorer compatible browser for viewing ?!

You don't use Apache to create web pages, just to serve them.
It is the web page creation software that generates HTTP code;
that code can be dependent upon specific browsers (either code
that is truly dependent, or code that checks the browser type
and aborts just in case it might be dependent).

Apache can serve up HTTP code better than IIS, but it is equally
stupid abut the content - if the code it is serving up happens
to be broken or wearing a straightjacket, Apache doesn't know
enough to fix it.  (In general, it would be impossible for
Apache to do so.)

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