Slashdot on IE and CSS
The original article is on IE7 and how it’s probably not going to adopt the CSS2 standard, again. But the comments on that article really speak IMO.
Microsoft is hindering the advancement of technology, all because of what? Because, “Microsoft considers CSS2 to be a flawed standard”? That’s pathetic. Like it or not Microsoft, it is the standard, and not supporting the standard isn’t helping anybody, certainly not you.
March 18th, 2005 at 5:03 am
I think I know which angle MS is looking from. I think it’s best to think and look outside the box, once in a while
March 18th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
I don’t care what angle they think they’re looking from. The web standards are not up them, and never will be. To choose not to implement the standards is forcing designers to spend more time on IE-specific tasks. To refuse to render code that meets web standards is insane. They are abusing their position in the market to get their way.
With CSS and DOM differences, you’d think MS would like us all to keep to tables and VBScript.
All I want is my CSS2/XHTML1-valid pages to actually work, for once, in IE. I don’t care if they add a whole bunch of non-standard bloat, as long as they can render pages properly.
March 24th, 2005 at 4:34 am
But.. the whole idea is to be versatile. I know your frustrations, that is one of the reasons I don’t dwelve in designing anymore. It sucks to make it look perfect cross-browsers. Maybe if there’re just enough people like you who would initiate a peaceful war against MS, then maybe they’ll listen {I wouldn’t count on them being less arrogant as this is what they’re behaving like}..
later sweetie,
March 24th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
You can hardly be versatile when you are limiting to features of the minority. Versatile would be adding their own bloat features, that’s fine with me. That would be great for intranets that have the pleasure of knowing that every client will be IE.
But for the rest of the real world, they’re causing nothing but problems.