And this demonstrates the problem with the HTML standard - 99% of the developers have NEVER read a single sentence out of it (having read several pages it is hard to blame them). They just assume what firefox/chrome/opera or whatever their browser of choice is IS the standard. After all we all know only IE does not follow the standard. When IE8 came out people were screaming left and right why their alt text is not shown as title. All other browsers support alt text on hover so obviously IE is not following the standard. Funny thing in this case IE8 fixed a bug in all previous IEs because alt text should NOT be displayed as title even if no title is available. But people don't read the standard :)

No, it's some IE specific issue that cuts longer comments in the middle and hides the reply link. I sometimes log in with Opera to post comments but most often decide to skip commenting. While /. may not care for this in particular I have dropped several sites I intended to spend money on for not supporting my browser of choice. For example playhem.com . I make sure to tell them they suck though ( http://feedback.playhem.com/forums/130623-ideas-improvements/suggestions/2577693-internet-explorer-support )

The other day I decided to test the c9.io and to my surprise it did not work not only in IE but in Opera as well. I don't have any other browsers on my laptop so the test kind of failed.

I have yet to see front end dev look at rendering engine code. I will be really impressed if I ever do see such a sight.

I'd like to complain that /. does not work well (hides part of comments) in IE. /. will probably claim that no one is complaining but here I am. So are you going to fix it now?

I find the decision very strange. The software that matters will still be developed for the desktop because big companies just buy Visual Studio (or more precisely have subscriptions). Trying to push Metro-style apps via students and hobbyists is in my opinion ridiculous. Also you get all the devs' rage and all the bad P.R. of Internet articles. If I saw any reason for them to do something evil, enslave the devs with their tools or push metro down our throats I would understand but this decision makes no sense to me in any way.

Why tags? How about Chrome Native Client the equivallent to ActiveX?

I see. Because some of these people + Scott Hanselman actually form all of my G+ feed (and I have like 80 more people in circles). My experience with G+ is exacty what the article describes. If we take out several geek figures who post a lot of public content I would see like 1 post a day.

So the people you listed as producers of G+ content have added you to their circles and post non-public statuses and this is why the study did not notice them?

Still in the last couple of years the division makes profits in the billions while paying for the next Xbox development and Windows Phone.

So you suggest that now he's going to kick out Sinofsky? Good joke! :)