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CSS Support IE 7.0's Weakest Link

Posted by timothy on from the can't-squash-superiors dept.

dilbertspace writes "Anyone who has ever developed a website knows that cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility is a nightmare, mainly due to Microsoft's willful non-compliance with the CSS2 standard. As this eWeek article points out, it seems Microsoft will continue their poor support for CSS2 even in the IE 7.0 release. This may have worked when IE was the only game in town, but now that Firefox is a serious player, it won't help them keep market share as they think it will."

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  1. Re:Don't count on it by ad0gg · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Firefox growth is declining Some people I know that switched to firefox switched back to IE mainly because firefox is somewhat unstable and a memory hog. I still use firefox because of tabbed browsing, and if IE gets tabbed browsing I'll probably switch back. Having my web browser use 200 megs of ram is just insane.

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  2. Re:Don't count on it by Rylz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Better web forms will not kill MS Office; OpenOffice will. OpenOffice will have near-perfect .doc compatibility (which is all it needs to convince your average Joe that he should use it rather than pay hundreds of dollars for MS Office) by the time a browser-based Office client is close to possible.

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  3. Re:Wrong by argent · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I tend to agree. Microsoft's security model is inherently broken and unfixable.