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CSS Support Could Be IE7's Weakest Link

Posted by Zonk on from the who-uses-that-css-stuff-anyway? dept.

Ritalin16 writes "Many web developers may be disappointed to hear that Microsoft decided to hold off on full CSS2 support with IE 7.0. As said by Microsoft-Watch: 'One partner said that Microsoft considers CSS2 to be a flawed standard and that the company is waiting for a later point release, such as CSS2.1 or CSS3, before throwing its complete support behind it.'" More commentary available from ZDNet. Generally related to the IE 7 Acid Test thrown down by Opera.

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  1. They are probably... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    going to hold off on alpha transparency for another 8 years too.

  2. Generally related to the IE 7 Acid Test by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it probably does *help* to be doing acid when trying to get IE to work properly ...

    1. Re:Generally related to the IE 7 Acid Test by RangerRick98 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Well, it probably does *help* to be doing acid when trying to get IE to work properly ...

      I have a friend that does it quite regularly.

      *shudder*... ugh, sure don't want to end up like him.

      Is that shudder because of the "doing acid" part or the "trying to get IE to work properly" part?
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  3. Irony at it's best by grasshoppa · · Score: 4, Funny

    MS complaining about broken standards.

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    1. Re:Irony at it's best by iamthemoog · · Score: 4, Funny

      surely "Slashdot posting articles about css standards" ?

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  4. Microsoft and standards.... by room101 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Microsoft considers CSS2 to be a flawed standard
    In other news, Microsoft considers every standard to be flawed. You know, no innovation and such.
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  5. Translation .... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

    We don't want to support your flawed standard so we can have a chance to push our own flawed standards.

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  6. Easy solution by NoSuchGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rename CSS2 to CSS2.1 or CSS3

    It doesn't matter what's inside the documents.

    MS only supports what it want's to support.

    Think about it!

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  7. Here, have some karma. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks for saving me the trouble of typing "CSS2" into google.

  8. Re:So In Other Words... by jbellis · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I'm going to start making it very clear to my customers now that MS has no intention of playing nice on the web"

    Wow. Welcome to 1998.

  9. Slashcode... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Many web developers may be disappointed to hear that Slashdot has decided to hold off on full CSS2 compatibility in the Slashcode product line....

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  10. 'flawed'? by ExistentialEngineer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who are they to talk about things being 'flawed'?