http://mytechworld.officeacuity.com/?p=107 Views on Web Technology and Industry Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:57:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://mytechworld.officeacuity.com/?p=107&cpage=1#comment-68 Phil Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:41:08 +0000 http://mytechworld.officeacuity.com/?p=107#comment-68 It's a tricky one for Micro$oft really. On the one hand, they need to bring their browser up to industry standard and make sure it renders sites in the way intended by the developers (i.e. by complying with web standards). On the other hand, there are so many sites out there that have been hacked, tweaked and generally fiddled in order to get them to display correctly with IE7- that suddenly telling the community that they've decided to fix the rendering engine and break all these sites is indeed going to harbour hostility. I feel sorry for them, really. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It’s a tricky one for Micro$oft really. On the one hand, they need to bring their browser up to industry standard and make sure it renders sites in the way intended by the developers (i.e. by complying with web standards). On the other hand, there are so many sites out there that have been hacked, tweaked and generally fiddled in order to get them to display correctly with IE7- that suddenly telling the community that they’ve decided to fix the rendering engine and break all these sites is indeed going to harbour hostility.
I feel sorry for them, really. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

]]> http://mytechworld.officeacuity.com/?p=107&cpage=1#comment-67 Dave Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:02:40 +0000 http://mytechworld.officeacuity.com/?p=107#comment-67 I saw a demo of it (IE8) last night, and while it had a couple of nice features (that will likely appear in other notable browsers by the end of the month) I tend to agree that Microsoft are kind of missing the point here. Hostility in particular was generated by the attitude that we should make our websites compatible with IE8, rather than the other way round.... I saw a demo of it (IE8) last night, and while it had a couple of nice features (that will likely appear in other notable browsers by the end of the month) I tend to agree that Microsoft are kind of missing the point here.
Hostility in particular was generated by the attitude that we should make our websites compatible with IE8, rather than the other way round….

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