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Gates Expresses Surprise Over IE8 Secrecy
eldavojohn writes "Shortly following the frustrations of IE7, Gates claims that he is unaware that IE8 Secrecy has been alienating developers. Ten influential bloggers met with Bill on Tuesday and asked Gates questions about why they are no longer receiving information on IE. From Molly Holzschlag's blog: 'Something seems to have changed, where there is no messaging now for the last six months to a year going out on the IE team. They seem to have lost the transparency that they had. This conversation [between Web developers and the IE team] seems to have been pretty much shut down, and I'm very concerned as to why that is.' To which Bill replied: 'I'll have to ask [IE general manager] Dean [Hachamovitch] what the hell is going on, I mean, we're not, there's not like some deep secret about what we're doing with IE.'"
See this comment, and then grow up.
I can tell you why nobody has heard anything from MS about IE 8 lately - THEY AREN'T DEVELOPING IT. It doesn't make them any money.
Remember, after IE 6 came out they virtually stopped development and let it become a cesspool for spyware, malware, and viruses. They only redecorated and slapped a "7" on it when Firefox started kicking them in the butt. This has happened before and is what is happening again now.
Personally I wish people would just shut up and forget about IE 8. It isn't happening any time soon. Just... get... Firefox! (Or Safari or Opera or anything else if you prefer)
The worse thing about that was listening ti whiny 'web masters' complain that it was to hard to program for two different braowers.
I said it then, and I say it now "Boo fucking Hoo"
Suck it up and write the extra 20 lines of code.
In fact, I did just that in the time the over paid web master was complaining about having to do it. Then I went back to real development work. It was fun listening to him rant about how hard it was to write 'for Netscape'. Then when he was done saying "While you your talking I went ahead and did it."
The VP could barely contain his laughter. Good times.
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CSS is bullshit? fuck off you table layout fossil.
Pragmatism is not immaturity. Telling someone to "grow up" when you disagree with them however probably is.