Do you think MS will ever adhere to web standards?

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falcorn
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12 Jan 2009, 2:33 pm

yea its called internet explorer 8



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12 Jan 2009, 4:20 pm

Just to make a point, Microsoft are members of the W3C:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

It always strikes me as odd that they can't read their own "club"'s documents.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
(Still an "Editor's Draft")

Oh, and judging by the Wikipedia article, Opera has a lot of HTML5 working, Safari does some bits, Firefox: not a lot, and IE - almost no support.


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12 Jan 2009, 4:32 pm

I laugh at people who use IE7 and use multiple browser windows for the internet. Didn't take me too long to discover tabs in Firefox



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12 Jan 2009, 4:41 pm

i still cant get how people are still using ie6, really?..... really?



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12 Jan 2009, 4:54 pm

PS. Browser usage:

IE falling, now less than 70%.
Firefox, rising, more than 20%
Safari, rising, a tad over 7%
Opera nearly makes 1%
The rest .... not a lot.

I seem to recall seeing the figures as a graph, somewhere...

Maybe I just did that myself, as I have again.

The trend is for IE to drop to 50% within four years. I'd be surprised if it lasted that long.


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12 Jan 2009, 5:09 pm

falcorn wrote:
i still cant get how people are still using ie6, really?..... really?

As of December, over 40% of IE users are still using IE6.


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