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IE8 May Not Pass the Acid2 Test After All
dotne writes "CNET has published an article called Acid2, Acid3 and the power of default. The article predicts that IE8 will not pass the Acid2 test after all: '[Another] scenario could be that Microsoft requires Web pages to change the default settings by flagging that they really, really want to be rendered correctly. Web pages already have a way to say this (called doctype switching, which is supported by all browsers), but Microsoft has all but announced that IE8 will support yet another scheme. If the company decides to implement the new scheme, the Acid2 test — and all the other pages that use doctype switching — will not be rendered correctly.' Microsoft's IE8 render modes have been discussed here previously, and they've caused an uproar in the web development community. According to the scheme, authors must put Microsoft-specific <meta> tags into their pages in order for them to be rendered correctly. I doubt Acid2, nor Acid3 will have Microsoft extensions in them."
Why not turn this complaint into a class action suit? It seems to me that putting right this sort of wrong is exactly the purpose of this legal mechanism. Surely the financial harm can be easily estimated.
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Why the fuck would a console web browser support CSS?
Apparently in your fantasy world everything should support CSS even when isn't suppose to!
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Ever looked at web code from Google? Pass all the "standards tests" do they? Noipe, didn't think so. Google ignores standards, goes off in their own direction. News at 11.
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Why do you care?
I am getting so sick of reading this website and all the people railing day in and day out against Microsoft. Anything that involves Microsoft just gets slammed. Good, bad, or indifferent. (This article is a good example. Microsoft is moving toward what you said you wanted, having IE support more standards. What do we have? People not even caring, just hating.)
Reading this website for well over a year, you know what the common theme among you is? All of you say the following.....I use Linix, I use OSX, or I would never be caught dead using a Microsoft product. So I am left to ask again, why do you care? If you are never going to use Microsoft why would you rail against anything they do? Are you that bored? You are going to use OSX so why do you care about Vista? You are going to use FireFox so why do you care about IE? You are going to use Thunderbird and OpenOffice so why do you care about Office?
The stories that get the most posts either involve Apple or Microsoft. Apple is Jesus and Microsoft is Lucifer. There I summed up ever post for you. Now go do something else. Go find a life. Go explorer Apples latest service pack, Leopard. Go write a Linux app. Go outside. Stop ruining the credibility of this website by spewing your hate.
PS: Have you ever noticed that Microsoft fans are not bashing Apple ever chance they get. Can anyone really say that about Apple fans and Microsoft? Think about it.
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