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CSS Support IE 7.0's Weakest Link
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."
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.
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.