Just what has Microsoft been doing for IE 7?

Jeff Reifman writes "Last week, Windows columnist Paul Thurrott ripped into Microsoft for ignoring CSS standards with its upcoming Internet Explorer 7.0. "Microsoft has set back Web development by an immeasurable amount of time. My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It's a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators." With the redesign of my own site last month, I discovered just how non-compliant IE is with basic CSS: IE 52% vs. Firefox 93%. Is Microsoft purely incompetent and tone-deaf to customers — or simply counting on IE's non-compliance remaining a de-facto standard?"

Comments

Re:Boycott

[DragonWriter]

Boycott I.E.? How are people supposed to do that?

By not using IE. Its not that hard; I have IE on both of my PCs at home, but the only thing I ever use it for is accessing Windows Update. (If I had another IE-only site I had to access—I've encountered a few in the past though they seem to be getting rarer at least for things I need—I'd use it for them, too.)

Just code to the standards and screw the users?

Ah, I see the problem. You think that "people" is an alias for "web developers".

CSS is old

[Drakin020]

If your still using CSS just drown yourself. With what you can do with XML, ASP it compleatly CRUSHES CSS. To you mr. Paul Thurrott..I say STFU