re: Internet Explorer 8 (yep, not yet released) does standards (well Acid anyway)

Vlad Mazek — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:50:27 GMT

The reason (we) the developing public wants Microsoft to conform to the standards is so that the experience for the customer is uniform over the wast spectrum of methods we have no control over - their cell phone browser, office web browser, home browser, their entertainment center browser, Xbox, etc. The experience (interface) must render identically over those and developers already spend far too much time hacking css to make pages render correctly in Internet Explorer vs. everything else.

I hope they make the "standards" one a default. The reason most people I hang out with, esp in the web 2.0 bubble, design AWAY from Microsoft and ignore technologies like SilverLight is because of Microsoft long track of failed attempts of controlling the Internet - Hailstorm, Passport, ActiveX, etc all ring a very sour tone for some of us that got burned by them.

So now we don't trust Microsoft.

To be fair, for the past two years both the IIS, IE and Visual Studio groups have done more than I would ever expect from Microsoft in terms of designing what we asked for, open sourcing it all and making it cross platform, so we don't have to have special meetings about things that we can't support. So kudos to Microsoft on that, I think its a great direction that will eventually sway a lot of us back that are actively developing on LAMP only due to the huge community around it.

I'll let you get back to the kittens now :)

-Vlad