New W3C HTML Working Group chaired by Microsoft
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| However, I am very uncomfortable with a Microsoft representative
| being the chair of what is possibly the most important Working
| Group of the W3C, and definitely the most visible one.
|
| Like Daniel Glazman says in Future of the HTML WG, no employee
| of any major browser vendor should be allowed to chair this Working
| Group. In my personal opinion that is especially true for Microsoft,
| who time and time again has shown a total lack of respect for Web
| professionals and Web standards, and has no credibility whatsoever
| among the people who will be using the new HTML specification.
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http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200701/new_w3c_html_working_group_chaired_by_microsoft/
Related:
IE7 Web Developers Nightmare
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| IE7 is a night mare for most of the developers that try to comply
| with standards for crossbrowsing.
| I recently needed to rewrite a web site so it works on firefox too...
| the surprising element was that when testing the new and the old site
| on IE7 I found out that many things does not function as expected and
| "not function as expected" isn't the right word for it, it was more
| a question of working at all.
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http://it-gears.blogspot.com/2007/01/ie7-nightmare-for-web-developers.html
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:
| -------------
| 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
Microsoft removes IE7 for Windows XP from WSUS
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| We have verified a problem in the metadata for the latest IE7.0 update
| rollup package...
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http://bink.nu/Article8933.bink
CLARION CALL: IE 7 Not Ready For Prime Time
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| Either leave your dog at home, or make sure it's trained better
| before inviting it into my house to make a mess on my carpet.
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http://saunderslog.com/2006/10/18/clarion-call-ie-7-not-ready-for-prime-time/
IE6 vs Firefox vs Firefox vs Safari
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| This is the Acid 2 test done on a 13 inch black MacBook running
| Parallels Beta 3 with coherence running from a boot camp partition.
| The open browsers are IE6 (left), Firefox for Windows (Top middle),
| Bonecho for mac (optimized Firefox build for intel, bottom middle),
| and Safari (Right).
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/41384028@N00/339365515/
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