and how google will ensure connectivity with MSN et al without being sued for something...
They could allow user plugins. Thus taking any sort of blame off google and onto the creator of the plugin.
However, apps like miranda, trillian, proteus, fire, adium, etc all seem to get away with it so maybe there is a loop hole.
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So if MS is standards compliant with IE7, there should be nothing to worry about. Of course we all know that that is NOT going to happen. IE7 might be standards based, but expect sweet and fattening IE7 only extentions in HTML pages that will break other browsers rendering.
This is interesting though. I've been coding sites standard compliant for over a 2 years now. Only recently have I ever had to use a "hack" in my programming to make it work in IE6, and It was just a simple conditional statement to switch style sheets.
The interesting thing though, the conditional will ONLY work for IE6 so really, if some of the recent news on IE7 is true, I shouldn't have to do anything. They are announcing to be more standard compliant. I can only hope.
On the line of IE7 only extensions though, Safari has recently done this with a form element of "" which puts up a nice little "google" search menu. If IE7 does this, sure there will be some problems but that's what will help evolve the internet as well. The idea is still scary though.
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and how google will ensure connectivity with MSN et al without being sued for something... They could allow user plugins. Thus taking any sort of blame off google and onto the creator of the plugin. However, apps like miranda, trillian, proteus, fire, adium, etc all seem to get away with it so maybe there is a loop hole.
First time poster!
So if MS is standards compliant with IE7, there should be nothing to worry about. Of course we all know that that is NOT going to happen. IE7 might be standards based, but expect sweet and fattening IE7 only extentions in HTML pages that will break other browsers rendering.
This is interesting though. I've been coding sites standard compliant for over a 2 years now. Only recently have I ever had to use a "hack" in my programming to make it work in IE6, and It was just a simple conditional statement to switch style sheets.
The interesting thing though, the conditional will ONLY work for IE6 so really, if some of the recent news on IE7 is true, I shouldn't have to do anything. They are announcing to be more standard compliant. I can only hope.
On the line of IE7 only extensions though, Safari has recently done this with a form element of "" which puts up a nice little "google" search menu. If IE7 does this, sure there will be some problems but that's what will help evolve the internet as well. The idea is still scary though.