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Microsoft Insists IE7 is Standards Compliant

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the believe-when-it-renders-stuff-right dept.

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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  1. In other news... by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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  2. Re:Sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "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!"

    What I say instead (I tend to be pretty honest):

    "I'm gonna fuck you again in the morning"
    "You better eat my sperm cum you jizz-guzzling spunk eater"
    "I had a vasectomy, the last thing I want is children with your fucked up genes, you stupid whore. Now spread your legs, bitch"
    "We're gonna make an OS that shoves its cock up your ass, and then shove that shit-covered cock in your mouth and then shit in your eyes and then cum in your mouth."

  3. Slashdot messed up, plain and simple by Trails · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  4. mod 0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    channel #GNAA on It's 33st to try

  5. Re:Acid Test by eric0213 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  6. Re:cut MS some slack by manifoldronin · · Score: 1, Troll
    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.
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  7. MS bragging... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MS making their browser standards-compliant and bragging about it reminds me of that Chris Rock routine:
    Niggas love to brag about shit you're supposed to do.... "I take care of my kids"---YOURE SUPPOSED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR KIDS YOU DUMB SHIT.... "I've never been in prison"---DO YOU WANT A MEDAL, YOU LOW-EXPECTATION-HAVING MOTHERFUCKER?!