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."

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[Shadow Wrought]

Wilson, speaking on behalf of Microsoft, also alleged proof that evolution is wrong, the moon landings never happened, and that Elvis is alive, well, and shares a quaint cottage in Northern Idaho with Bigfoot and his cousin Yeti, visiting from Nepal.

Slashdot messed up, plain and simple

[Trails]

A slashdot post claimed last week that the previous week (so two weeks ago), a Paul Thurrott article called MS IE non compliant. This is just plain wrong, the Thurrott article is over a year old, and /. should probably apologise, regardless of the standards compliance or lack thereof of the latest MS browser offering.

Re:Acid Test

[eric0213]

I understand the importance of failing gracefully, but we're really appealing to the least common denominator. If you wrote C code like the Acid test, you wouldn't expect it to compile. Why should we hold browsers to a higher standard? Granted, the guy writing the CSS could be a marketing major working at an internship for little or no pay.

Re:cut MS some slack

[manifoldronin]

If Microsoft delivers with IE7, and that's a big if, then they will likely regain some market share.

I doubt that. They may be able to slow down the _losing_ of market share, but I hardly see them _regain_ anything significant. Because, as you put it, even _if_ they do deliver, it would be _catching up_ with other browsers, rather than surpassing them, as in the case of previous battle against Netscape.