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Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doesn't-that-burn-your-bottom dept.

An anonymous reader says "According to this story on news.com, it is becoming harder for users of Microsoft-free systems and browsers to view the web. This seems to be a new call to arms from the standards groups, and it is something we should be thinking about. Without help from web designers, using browsers like Mozilla and Opera will effectively cut off our ability to view web sites 'correctly.'" My pet peeve is when sites hype and announce new-and-improved sites, and then they come out and they are simply a gigantic flash application.

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  1. Re:IE has the most uesrs by Profane+Motherfucker · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Oh for fuck's sake, you can't argue that. Why should we have java? Why not code in ANSI C all the time? Why write programs for MacOS or Windows? Why not code straight commandline apps that eschew the GUIs -- which only fuck shit up by making shit platform fucking dependent?

    Hell, why have USB? Why not just make PS/2? Why have IDE? Why not have SCSI? Why do we have to use HTML when clearly, XML is a better format?

    It's a poor fucking argument. The real reason is that HTML is a shitty fucking file format that cares more about presentation than internal format. If people want to use IE -- so be it. They want more flexibility. For fucks sake: apply this bullshit fucking argument to printing: oh, woe! Why do people use CMYK? Why not use letterpress! It's a long established standard. Damn that proprietary postscript bullshit! Fucking assholes excluding black and white users.