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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. Dupe support slashdot's weakest link by m50d · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's deja vu all over again. You'd think that when it's not just the same story but the same headline...

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    1. Re:Dupe support slashdot's weakest link by ari_j · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not exactly, although I thought the same thing at first. The old headline is CSS Support Could Be IE7's Weakest Link. Here, we have left out the "Could Be" and changed it to "IE 7.0," so it's entirely different, and therefore it's not a dupe.

  2. Confirmation by Chris+Kamel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do we call this a dupe or a confirmation ?

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  3. Its CSS support is so weak.. by FidelCatsro · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..That the story had to be posted twice

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  4. Re:Don't count on it by kars · · Score: 5, Funny

    The public perception of the IE's security has declined.

    You mean it's improved, right?

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  5. Re:well duh by EtherAlchemist · · Score: 4, Funny


    microsoft doesnt conform to any standards

    Why conform to existing standards when you can make your own?

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  6. W3C CSS by soloport · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, this is the w3c-css supprted version of the story. The previous one supported only IE.

  7. Re:Not a dupe! by trezor · · Score: 3, Funny
    • It's not the editors' fault that the eWeek article is just a summary of the Microsoft Watch article!

    Like it matters. This is after all slashdot, and no-one reads the fscking articles :)

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