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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. Here is my fear by bogaboga · · Score: 1, Troll

    M$ will provide a "security" patch that will check for the presence of "potentially viral" software (read Firefox) then provide a solution that will cripple Firefox's functionality. This might be in form of FF always crashing or even closing some ports that FF needs to work well. When this happens very few users will dare use Firefox again. Maybe the Europeans will tame M$ this time.

  2. More MS bashing.. yawn by philask · · Score: 0, Troll

    God doesn't it get boring that /. has nothing better to do than dupe more MS bashing? Come on guys there must be something better in life than constantly looking for stories which cast MS in a bad light?

    1. Re:More MS bashing.. yawn by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Troll
      Come on guys there must be something better in life than constantly looking for stories which cast MS in a bad light?

      It really doesn't take a lot of looking, they sort of write them selves.

      And this business of egregiously repetitive dupes has been going on for some time. It's an indication that the Slashdot "editors" (a term used VERY loosely) and the tin Gods that "employ" them really have no respect at all for the Slashdot audience. Slashdot is more or less driving itself down the FuckedCompany road (although Slashdot didn't start out in the same shit pile as FC, and may never quite reach it's depth of pig sty wallowing), all the original crew have taken the VA Software / OSDN payola, and can now live comfortably the rest of their lives without giving a shit about the "little people". Guys like Timmy and Zonk are just Taco Fanboys hoping to pick up a few of the cast of coins and bask in the Holy light given off by RobLimo and his male concubines. Harsh, but that's the reality of it.

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    2. Re:More MS bashing.. yawn by dustmite · · Score: 1, Troll

      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
      - 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.

  3. CSS Support IE 7.0's Weakest Link? by nihilistcanada · · Score: 0, Troll

    Uh, IE 7.0s weakest link is that Microsoft will be programing it.

  4. Re:M$ cares ... by puiahappy · · Score: 0, Troll

    M$IE Sucks no mather what, whit css2 support or whitout. In just 1 year firefox has got at least 15% of the browsers usage from 0. In the next 2 years people will forget forever his M$IE.

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