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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. 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".

  4. 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. 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.