__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Wednesday 16 August 2006 17:25 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> In defense of Internet Explorer
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | In his article, Wilson defended IE, and more specifically, he decried
>> | the poor rating given to the browser in a web standards support summary.
>> | In a nutshell, the report said that IE 6 and IE 7 can't match the level
>> | of standards support found in Opera and Firefox.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/8/16/4999
>>
>> With Firefox extensions/themes, as well as Opera themes/widgets, it's
>> unlikely to catch up, function-wise.
>
> 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.
Sorry to reply in brevity to such as an informative post, but for what it's
worth, Scott Berkun (I hope I remembered the spelling of his name
correctly), the guy who managed the IE projects from version 1 through to 5,
is using Mozilla Firefox. No own dogfood. Just dogs (or "unethical
shitheads").
Best wishes,
Roy
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