Microsoft, Ubuntu, ThePirateBay and Web Standards Compliance
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| Website Standards Compliant Mode?
| microsoft.com Quirks Mode
| apple.com Standards Compliant
| ubuntu.com Standards Compliant
| digg.com Standards Compliant
| redhat.com Standards Compliant
| kde.org Standards Compliant
| mininova.org Standards Compliant
| thepiratebay.org Standards Compliant
| americanexpress.com Standards Compliant
| tomshardware.com Standards Compliant
| penny-arcade.com Standards Compliant
| netscape.com Standards Compliant
| foxnews.com Standards Compliant
|
| I am not anti-Microsoft by any means, but it is unfortunate that
| foxnews.com is standards compliant and microsoft.com isn't.
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http://www.kirkouimet.com/blog/
Related:
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1989 9:44 AM [1998]
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
Carrying Water for Microsoft
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| Careless Web developers work tirelessly to maintain Redmond's dominance.
|
| [...]
|
| Fidelity's contractor didn't set out to build a website that would shut
| out Macintosh and Linux users. But by being lax with its choice of
| Web authoring technologies, that's exactly what it did.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/posts.aspx?id=17504&author=garfinkel
Why Microsoft Expression Web redefines irony
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| Expression is Microsoft's suite of web development tools slated to
| replace the wonderful application known as Front Page. A quick visit
| to the site for this tool yields a fairly typical Microsoft webpage.
|
| [...]
|
| WHOA! Did they not even listen to their own marketing garbage? 144
| Errors! No DocType? Are you kidding me?
|
| [...]
|
| Bravo to our good friends at Microsoft for setting such a great example
| and leading the masses to a more standards compliant internet! (and
| for giving web standards geeks something to hate on).
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http://shifteleven.com/articles/2006/11/16/why-microsoft-expression-web-redefines-irony
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| Wow, this is absolutely devastating! As near as I can tell, the poor
| guy at Microsoft has been trying to support open standards against
| management. He doesn't say much about the history, i.e. the fact that
| Microsoft didn't do anything with IE until they were recently forced to
| by Firefox competition. The feedback is amazing. Example:
|
| Quote:
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| So if you believe that the reason for IE's lack of standards support is
| something other than malice of forethought to strangle other browsers,
| you are wrong. If you have followed the anti-trust trial you would have
| seen the actual evidence for these decisions. Microsoft is an
| anti-competitive company run by unethical shitheads.
|
| This won't change until the workforce is slashed and the entire company
| culture changes. Steve Ballmer is the king of the shitheads, so when he
| goes things might get better. But until then, expect MS to only do the
| absolute minimum to defuse the worst criticism. Remember my words:
| unethical shitheads.
| -------------
| End quote
|
| Erik cited this same guy's blog a few days ago to support the notion
| that Microsoft is dedicated to standards compliance and is doing the
| reasonable thing (I think that's why he cited it). The way this story
| has developed, it shows exactly the opposite, and is very revealing
| about sentiments out there in the developer world.
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http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/cc1ad063dcc0400d
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