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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:brace yourself.... by BitZtream · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hypocrisy is great isn't it.

    MS does it and its evil.

    Someone else does it and geeks and fanboys are happy as a pig in shit about it.

    What do you think Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) has done? They largely ignored HTML5 until it started going their way. Then the standard moved towards their work. So its okay because Mozilla does it, but not when MS does it? Grow up fanboy.

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  2. Here we go again... by Dr.Dubious+DDQ · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let me guess, Microsoft is going to try "OOXML'ing" HTML5?

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  3. Re:brace yourself.... by Ilgaz · · Score: 1, Troll

    Did a single MS browser except the Mac IE which runs a different engine support the stable standards of the day it was released without 'extending and embracing' it?

    Do you call that poster fanboy? I call you a paid MS puppet.