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Opera Tells EU That Microsoft's IE Hurts the Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ow-right-in-my-infrastructure dept.

kastababy writes "In yet another instance of up-and-coming browser developers fighting back against the Microsoft behemoth, the makers of Opera have filed a complaint with the European Union against Microsoft. In their complaint, they allege that IE's 77% market share abuses its dominant position by tying IE to Windows and its refusal to accept Web standards, causing significant interoperability issues. The complaint also requests that the EU's Antitrust Division force Microsoft to separate IE from Windows and accept several different standards, thereby resolving major interoperability issues and providing consumers more choice in the browser market." Update: 12/14 19:47 GMT by Z : We also discussed this yesterday.

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  1. about time by pkadd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Microsoft is the one company that comes up with new standards, most of them poor. However, they are also the ones who are the worst at following well established standards, as well as adapting to new commonly accepted ones. For example, when do you think IE will support SVG without any 3rd party plugins?

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    1. Re:about time by CastrTroy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And MS has decided to go with the MS Word HTML rendering engine for Outlook 2007. What a terrible piece of crap that is. Just when we thought they were making some headway with IE7, they go and pull this stunt. I'm not the biggest fan of HTML email, but making a move like this is just terrible.

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    2. Re:about time by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

      Fuck SVG. I'd like to see IE support HTML.

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    3. Re:about time by Dracos · · Score: 5, Insightful

      CSS2.1? How about they start with something simpler to fully implement, like

      • HTML 3.2
      • DOM Level 0
      • HTML 4
      • DOM Level 1
      • CSS 1
      • DOM Level 2
      • HTML 4.01
      • XHTML 1.0
      • CSS 2
      • DOM Level 3

      If there's anything I forgot, it belongs on that list. IE has never fully supported anything.

  2. Decoupling IE and Windows... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    would make it kind of irritating to get any browser. You can't really tell them they have to provide a browser written by a competitor, so how would people go to websites to download the browser they want?

    1. Re:Decoupling IE and Windows... by Joe+Jay+Bee · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Sure, and the beige box builders get a browser how then?

      I, personally, have no qualms with Microsoft shipping IE with Windows. It is their product, after all. BUT they should give OEMs the option to strip it out and replace it with Firefox/Opera/Safari/K-Meleon if they so desire. Which, really, is what this is all about.

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  3. Re:Dupe? by IdahoEv · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't we see this yesterday here???

    You must be new here.
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