Microsoft learns a web-standards lesson
Posted by Steven Parker on 20 July 2007 - 13:49 · 5 comments & 2751 views
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#1 Posted by Magallanes on 20 Jul 2007 - 15:05
- Internet explorer IS the standard de-facto.
In fact many webdesigners create webpages thinking only in iexplorer and some other think in iexplorer and Firefox.
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#2 Posted by david13lt on 20 Jul 2007 - 15:40
- Hehe, such thing as IE made my development ~60% longer. I had to rewrite almost everything. CSS isn't the big problem, but DOM it's just terrible.
"The best view using FireFox/Safari and Opera
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#2.1 Posted by LaXu on 20 Jul 2007 - 23:29
- It's the same for me. Any fancier CSS tends to break in IE6 but IE7 handles it fairly decently with only minor issues. Any DOM stuff is horrible though. IE is propably the number one reason preventing web developers from fully utilising the power of CSS or Javascript at the moment. Hopefully by IE8 we can at least start considering using CSS3...
In a video interview last month, Microsoft blogger and group manager of technical community, Frank Arrigo, explained how important it is for the Redmond giant to follow web standards.
"Standards are important," said Arrigo, who admitted that Microsoft had been guilty of ignoring them in the past. "If you look at IE6 [Intenet Explorer 6], we didn't quite follow all the standards but standards are important... IE7 as an example is trying to address that."
In July 2003, IE owned more than 90 percent of the browser market and very few companies even bothered testing their web applications against anything other than Microsoft's (non-standards compliant) browser.
In that position of power, Microsoft announced that IE would no longer be released as a standalone browser and instead would be available only as part of the next desktop operating system — at that time known only by the code-name Longhorn, but since released as Windows Vista.