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Opera Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability
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!)"
Sherlock
That was classic intercourse!
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'.
Boo hoo Microsoft Boo hoo.. blah blah.
Can we talk about something else?
Or maybe it's a case of them being lazy and not bothering to support other browsers because they realize (correctly) that this will allow some 60-70% of users to access Hotmail. If you're not one of them then support other free email providers that do display correctly on your browser. Microsoft runs itself as a business (and I argue that's good...) and there's little reason for them to spend money catering to your wishes if there's no reason for them to...not to mention the fact that your argument can be reversed, as in Mozilla is trying to exclude MS fans by not displaying Hotmail's page correctly. Ludicrous and far-fetched? Yes, but only a little more than your claim.
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.