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."

Comments

Sounds familiar

[smooth wombat]

"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.

Re:Sounds familiar

[Anonymous Coward]

This is Slashdot. Your references are going to go right over everyone's heads.

In other news....

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft changes Web Standards to comply with IE7.

Puff ball interview

[RingDev]

Now, I'm all for IE improvements. As a web developer with a large number of IE based users, any improvement to IE and its standards adoption is a good thing. But this interview read more like a fan boi in a dev shop that a journalist looking for answers. Especially this question:

Richard: To clarify then, you're saying that with IE7 you're hoping to support as many of the CSS Web standards as possible, while also having that backwards compatibility. That's your vision for IE7, to definitely support Web standards?

Did the interviewer have to remove his face from the interviewees crotch to ask him that question?

-Rick

In Other News.....

[Azeron]

Satan insists AntiChrist 50 - 90% like Jesus.... except better.

Re:Acid Test

[ozmanjusri]

Question is, do they use Acid for measurement?

No, but the design team dropped a few tabs.

Standards checklist

[wardk]

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?

Re:cut MS some slack

[WilliamSChips]

For example, a Slashdotter got a girlfriend, that's proof that anything is possible.