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Site Compatibility and IE8
Kelson writes "As the release of Internet Explorer 8 approaches, Microsoft's IE Team has published a list of differences between IE7 and IE8, and how to fix code so that it will work on both. Most of the page focuses on IE8 Standards mode, but it also turns out that IE7 compatibility mode isn't quite the same as IE7 itself."
I didn't realize that even IE7 was that pathetic; it doesn't even see the difference between a 'name' and an 'id' attribute.
Very happy that I'm not web-developing any more.
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Get over yourself. Web development is important, but the situation isn't as dire as you make it out to be. Somehow over the years that Internet Explorer has been dominating the market share and completely ignoring web standards, the world wide web grew by leaps and bounds, millions of businesses grew online, millions of people used the web to communicate and spread ideas, and a very large majority of it took place in a proprietary browser with proprietary extensions and poor web standards compliance.
Not only that, but one of those proprietary extensions turned out to be the foundation of today's web standards. Microsoft invented a little COM object we used to call XMLHTTP. That in turn was copied by Mozilla and became what we now know as XMLHttpRequest, the foundation of AJAX and the basis of all Web 2.0 development.
You anti-Microsoft zealots take advantage of Microsoft a innovation to implement your Web 2.0 applications, the whole while talking about how Microsoft has been such a huge setback to the web. It's pure hypocrisy.
There's a place for proprietary technology and innovation, and there's a place for open source and standards based development and innovation.
If you are really a "web developer" then I got news for you buddy..
If there was indeed broad standards support then you would probably be out of a job.
Here you are in an industry that is continualy changing in such a way that it makes you personally worth less and less, and you are screaming "hurry up!"
Yeah... i'll take the karma hit here.. your religion has convinced you that suicide is a good thing. All that specialty knowledge you have had to learn to support the quirks of the various browsers has VALUE that you are currently benefiting from. It is the quirks of the browsers that makes you special. Take away those quirks and you are no longer special.
"His name was James Damore."