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Microsoft Break Standards, Refuse to Support Imperfection

This you are not going to believe, especially if you design for the Web.

Microsoft have already decided to 'extend' RSS standards, which is outrageous
on its own right:

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121590,00.asp

<snip>
   "Microsoft is planning to extend the RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
   standard to better support the publishing of ordered lists of information,
   a company spokesperson says."
</snip>

Behold what I found in an item from 2 days ago:

http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2005/11/03/489065.aspx

<snip>
   "we?ve adopted the following overriding principle for IE 7 and
   RSS platform in Windows Vista: 

   We will only support feeds that are well-formed XML"
</snip>

Mind you, merely /any/ application in existence happily supports feeds that
are invalid.

Is it just me who is stunned? What a nerve they have!

Roy

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