Just what has Microsoft been doing for IE 7? 354
Jeff Reifman writes "Last week, Windows columnist Paul Thurrott ripped into Microsoft for ignoring CSS standards with its upcoming Internet Explorer 7.0. "Microsoft has set back Web development by an immeasurable amount of time. My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It's a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators." With the redesign of my own site last month, I discovered just how non-compliant IE is with basic CSS: IE 52% vs. Firefox 93%. Is Microsoft purely incompetent and tone-deaf to customers — or simply counting on IE's non-compliance remaining a de-facto standard?"
IE developers use Firefox themselves (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Percentages (Score:5, Funny)
These numbers are based on web developer usage.
52% use IE 6
54% use IE 7
93% use firefox 1.5
93% use opera 8.5
96% use opera 9
As a result, most web sites (96%) look good in opera 9, making it the most compliant browser. Unfortunately, the other 292% of web sites look pretty bad in it.
What are they doing for IE7? (Score:4, Funny)
Hopefully nothing like what is said here [hastypastry.net]. Warning: there there be crappiness.
Re:The Percentages (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The Percentages (Score:5, Funny)
For the best browser experience... (Score:5, Funny)
(Seriously. The best browser is there.)
Re:Auto-boycot (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Auto-boycot (Score:4, Funny)
If they want to use a broken browser, have a popup window say 'your browser is broken, use firefox', and that's it, end of story.
And advertising Firefox in popups... that's soooo much better.
Re:Not quite... (Score:3, Funny)
Your sentiments are great, but I think we could recommend an even newer browser then that...
Re:Not quite... (Score:2, Funny)