"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[speaking about IE7]
Opera UI ripoff and Firefox feature ripoff.
I know a lot of people don't want IE7 to succeed (I'm one of them),
which would make the whole discussion of what could IE7 do to improve itself
moot, but putting that aside for now...
Isn't this a good thing? A lot of people would agree that FireFox has
desirable features that IE6 didn't have (I know a lot of people switched
just for the tabbed browsing, for example), and so if IE7 now has those
features, the qualities of web browsers as a whole has gone up, and maybe
they'll be more competition, thus pushing Firefox to innovate even better
features.
The problem (in my opinion, anyway) isn't so much that IE7 is "stealing"
ideas from other products (after all, when OpenOffice "steals" an idea from
Microsoft Office, for example, that's usually seen as a good thing), but
rather that I really don't want IE to become the dominant web browser on the
Internet.
Why? Because IE6 did not implement correctly implement the (X)HTML/CSS
standards, and when asked about standards compliance in IE7, most Microsoft
spokespersons interviewed declined to comment, which leads me to believe IE7
won't be much better in that regard. And whatever marketshare you assign to
IE (80%? 90%?), if the majority of the market isn't following the standards,
we've got problems.
- Oliver
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