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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. o.o by Ritalin16 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    this article was already shown :(

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  2. well duh by atividia · · Score: 0, Redundant

    microsoft doesnt conform to any standards

  3. Re:Dupe support slashdot's weakest link by hackstraw · · Score: 1, Redundant

    No, its a followup story. The one here has the headline "CSS Support Could Be IE7's Weakest Link", and they added the .0 too.

    The slashdot "editors" are more on the ball than you think!

    Actually, as often as this happens, I think its almost a joke by these guys. Either that, or they are completely ignorant about the content of their own site and can't even do a 10 second search on google like I did to find the previous story.

  4. Re:More MS bashing.. yawn by dustmite · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Look, troll, it's simple:
    - A large percentage of Slashdot's audience consists of technical people like Web developers
    - Issues like broken CSS compliance have a very real and direct effect on web developers, as they/we have to spend a lot of time and effort dealing with, and working around, the problems caused by poor support
    - The facts are true: Microsoft's CSS support is broken .. MS is cast in a bad light because FACT, they ARE in the wrong here .. duh
    - The issue is thus very relevant to the audience, who will have to deal with the negative consequences of poor CSS support in IE7

    These are indisputable facts. If this is "mindless bashing", kindly demonstrate to us (with facts, not lame attempts at attempting to redefine MS-bashing as "uncool") that we're all wrong and that MS's CSS support in fact has no problems.

    You're not a developer, this doesn't affect you, so you find it boring, fine: Then why not just ignore the MS articles and shut up? Why come in here and post? It may be boring to you, but is relevant to us and affects the work we do in a real way. If you don't want to see MS articles, just turn them off in your slashdot settings, simple.

    (Repost, ignore previous; why does /. post the previously previewed version before I edited the post again?)