Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 09, 2004 02:01 AM
This attitude is what prevents browsers from evolving. Internet Explorer has not had any major updates to its rendering engine since 6.0 came out. It is woefully behind its competition in features (bad CSS 2 support, poor security model, no tabbed browsing, etc.) yet because it ships as the default with new boxes it holds on to the major portion of the market. This is unacceptable and needs to change.
Web standards are there for a reason. Microsoft and all the others on the standards commitees committed to building tools that use these standards. MS refuses to implement the standards that THEY helped create. Rolling over just because MS is the 800 lb. gorilla in the market is plain stupid.
Read up on what the experts think about MS's mistreatment of its users:
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Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's Internet Explorer browser</a com.com>
<A HREF="http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/intro/" TITLE="edwards.name">A user fixes IE's broken CSS suport</a edwards.name>
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 09, 2004 02:01 AMThis attitude is what prevents browsers from evolving. Internet Explorer has not had any major updates to its rendering engine since 6.0 came out. It is woefully behind its competition in features (bad CSS 2 support, poor security model, no tabbed browsing, etc.) yet because it ships as the default with new boxes it holds on to the major portion of the market. This is unacceptable and needs to change.
Web standards are there for a reason. Microsoft and all the others on the standards commitees committed to building tools that use these standards. MS refuses to implement the standards that THEY helped create. Rolling over just because MS is the 800 lb. gorilla in the market is plain stupid.
Read up on what the experts think about MS's mistreatment of its users:
Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's Internet Explorer browser</a com.com>
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