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Microsoft Finally Joins HTML 5 Standard Efforts

Posted by Soulskill on from the fashionably-late dept.

bonch writes "On Friday, Microsoft posted to a mailing list that IE developers are reviewing the HTML 5 standard for future versions of Internet Explorer. They've given some feedback on the current editor's draft, saying that they 'have more questions than answers' and criticizing many of HTML 5's new tags, like <header>, <footer> and <aside>, calling them 'arbitrary' or unnecessary. It remains to be seen whether Microsoft waited too long to try to influence basic parts of the spec that most of their competitors have already adopted."

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  1. Re:MS HTML5 by linhares · · Score: 2, Funny

    They will just "extend" the standard and call all other implementations broken.

    That's not so easy anymore; they have a fight against Google, Apple, the EU, Mozilla's momentum, etc.

    For evidence, just look at their silverlight adoption rates.

  2. brace yourself.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    MSHTML 5 is coming.....

    "We didnt like the standard so we improved on it"

  3. So... by botik32 · · Score: 1, Funny

    So, they come late to the party, call the lead singer titless, and puke on the birthday cake.

    So unlike the old Microsoft : )

  4. Spoiled kid better learn the rules already by Ilgaz · · Score: 1, Funny

    You see, the web pages are really becoming complex with amazing dynamic tricks all over the place... The days of Firefox, Opera, Webkit developers give up the real work in hand and try to hack the code to fix (!!!) the rendering are over. There is simply no kind of manpower to keep up with their junk.

    I always kept minimal compatibility with MS IE but the day IE 8 claimed my XHTML 1 strict front page has "errors" and I spent hours trying to fix non existent bug, I deleted Windows virtual machine forever. Enough really. I don't want people who doesn't have power/basic knowledge to install a compliant browser to be my customers anyway.

    1. Re:Spoiled kid better learn the rules already by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Funny

      People that happilly spend their money on a crappy OS with a crappy browser are EXACTLY the kind of customers you want to buy your obviously crappy, "it worked fine in the laboratory"-style products.

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  5. Re:MS HTML5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    They cite "errors on the page" with yellow "!".

    Ah Microsoft, with their silent/invisible "rendering by this browser" after the word "page".

  6. mindset ... by Big+Jojo · · Score: 2, Funny

    We're not sure this is the right design to be encouraging given that it wasn't in HTML 4.01.

    I'm not sure that is the right thought process to be applying, given that HTML 5 is supposed to extend HTML 4.01 ... regardless of the specific feature in question. One hopes that's just a really rushed/broken edit artifact, not a real reflection of what they think.

    I could believe many of their comments are appropriate, but it's worrisome to see one like that escaping orbit.