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Opera Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability

Posted by Zonk on from the tit-for-tat dept.

Noksagt writes "Opera CTO Hakon Lie has countered the claims that Bill Gates made regarding Microsoft's superior interoperability last week. He points out their invalid webpages, MS's unwillingness to serve the same content to different browsers, IE's poor CSS support, tardy documentation and limitations of their XML format, and more." From the article: "You say you believe in interoperability. Why then, did you terminate the Web Core Fonts initiative you started in 1996? You deserve credit for starting it, but why close down a project which could have given you yet much good will? (Verdana sucks, but Georgia is beautiful!)"

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  1. Profit, profit, profit.... by MMaestro · · Score: 0, Troll
    Why then, did you terminate the Web Core Fonts initiative you started in 1996? You deserve credit for starting it, but why close down a project which could have given you yet much good will?

    Because Microsoft is out to make money first, establish standards for its own purposes second and do acts of good deeds somewhere down the line... if they feel like it. Quit barking up the money tree. There are movie stars, politicians, and other millionares who practice the same type of anti-competition methods. I can hardly see how this news 'matters'.

  2. Re:I speak for people *everywhere* when I say ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is not hard-coding: this is coding for optimal output, good output, and gracefully handling downlevel systems/browsers:

    foo{
    font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    }

    Or do you prefer that web designers use sans-serif and courier for everything? If you want everything to look the same, use a typewriter and get the heck off of the web - or use Lynx and quit your whining.

    Get over yourself.