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Microsoft Insists IE7 is Standards Compliant
ReadWriteWeb writes "Microsoft's Chris Wilson, the Group Program Manager for IE addresses the issue of whether IE7 is CSS and Web standards compliant. Last week a Slashdot post claimed that IE7 was basically non-compliant with CSS standards. But Chris Wilson says that isn't true and that standards improvements is a big part of IE7. He admits that there were a ton of bugs from IE6 that have caused web developers a lot of pain, but says that IE7 will address those and be standards compliant. He goes as far to say that IE7 supports Web standards even at the expense of more backwards compatibility."
"I'll respect you in the morning."
"I won't *** in your mouth."
"I'll pull out in time."
"We're gonna make this the most secure OS ever!"
Even Bush knows, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, not gonna happen."
Guaranteed, 100%, that IE7 will be less standards-compliant than either Firefox or Opera.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
IE7 still has the pesky problem, even after all the patches and rewrites, of being Internet Explorer from Microsoft.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
Microsoft changes Web Standards to comply with IE7.
Did the interviewer have to remove his face from the interviewees crotch to ask him that question?
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
Satan insists AntiChrist 50 - 90% like Jesus.... except better.
You see, that's only for the W3C CSS standard. There is no official test suite for the Microsoft CSS standard.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
No, but the design team dropped a few tabs.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
None. Microsoft simply declares that "dark" is now the standard.
I guess it's good to be the king.
*waves goodbye to his good karma*
"IE7 is Standards Compliant"
"These aren't the droids you're looking for"
"You can go about your business"
Only runs on Windows - check
apple-like icons - check
Tosses bs errors on competetitor sites - check
runs viruses quietly - check
ignores CSS specs MS doesn't use - check
what's the problem?
But is it yet HTTP-compliant? Specifically, does IE 7 treat the Content-Type header provided by the server as authoritative as required by RFC 2616 Sectino 7.2.1?
.iso file and don't configure their website to treat *.iso as application/octet-stream and serve it as text/plain, but I hate even more that Internet Explorer will download the file to disk where all HTTP-compliant browsers will properly render the ISO file in the browser window as plain text, resulting in the server never being reconfigured to serve the file as the proper type because the person who set it up only tests with IE!
I'm sick of sites that, say, put up a Linux boot CD up as a
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
I was able to get my girlfriend to switch to Firefox and to start drinking Guinness (and she now drinks it more than me). Anything is possible.
For example, a Slashdotter got a girlfriend, that's proof that anything is possible.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Microsoft Insists IE7 is Standards Complaint
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That would have been the greatest typo evar...
not to mention a truer assertion for M$ to make.
Be carefuly not to stab her with the bottle opener, she won't be as much fun when deflated.
Create an icon that is the "Blue E" for IE and have it point to FF instead. If she doesn't know how to find IE after that, she is at your mercy! Hum, but, on the other hand, if she gets pissed then the old Chinese proverb may bear more truth than fiction: Man who fight with wife during day has no piece at night!
These Slashdotter has a girlfriend?!? jokes are as cliched as the overlords joke.
In Soviet Russia clichéd girlfriendless overlords welcome you.
To carry out the procedure you describe, taking into account all the different interactions between multiple element types, multiple attributes, multiple properties with multiple values of multiple lengths would involve writing millions of testcases. Are you volunteering?
If only we had some sort of machine that could perform tasks in an automated fashion much faster than humans. If it were able to be "programmed" in some way, it could indeed calculate or "compute" results for large numbers of problems in short periods of time.
It would be great if Microsoft looked into such an automation tool, I suspect it would be handy in such situations where you have to test millions of permutations on a system. I guess until now they've only been dealing with simple things like Windows operating systems, which only have a few hundred possible testcases that are all run manually.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.