Let me first say that I am not a m$ oppenant because of their 'shady business' practices...I oppose m$ because of the bunk products they 'ship'. I understand that patches are necessary, for security updates or whatever. But gimme a break!
Anyway...Smart Tags. This is just another fork in the 'standards' road for them. I am a web developer and I deal with thier (m$) 'standards' all the time. Like for instance, I believe it was the release of IE4 that included the undocumented feature that would complete your tags for you. In otherwords you open a table tag, but forget to close it. IE would render the page 'correctly'. Whereas netscape and mozilla (which were coded to render html according to the w3c standards at that time) would puke because the tag wasn't closed. I know I can code to w3c/html X.X standards, but that's not what companies/clients want.
Where does it stop? I get tired of having to make sites work for a couple of different browsers. I just have one question to ask m$. When did they become their own consortium and invent their own standards that everyone will have to bow to?!?.
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This is the best post I have read yet. Great Job!!
All I have to say is...LOL! These are the two best posts I have read all day! LOL
pce-fu,
th3 di$cipl3
Let me first say that I am not a m$ oppenant because of their 'shady business' practices...I oppose m$ because of the bunk products they 'ship'. I understand that patches are necessary, for security updates or whatever. But gimme a break!
Anyway...Smart Tags. This is just another fork in the 'standards' road for them. I am a web developer and I deal with thier (m$) 'standards' all the time. Like for instance, I believe it was the release of IE4 that included the undocumented feature that would complete your tags for you. In otherwords you open a table tag, but forget to close it. IE would render the page 'correctly'. Whereas netscape and mozilla (which were coded to render html according to the w3c standards at that time) would puke because the tag wasn't closed. I know I can code to w3c/html X.X standards, but that's not what companies/clients want.
Where does it stop? I get tired of having to make sites work for a couple of different browsers. I just have one question to ask m$. When did they become their own consortium and invent their own standards that everyone will have to bow to?!?.
I'm done. pce-fu,
th3 di$cipl3