Nothing ticks me off worse than to visit a web site and have the pages render poorly in Firefox. This is the dreaded design to IE7 feature that plenty of web sites seem to think enhances their user experience. Car manufacturers are the worst offenders.
Microsoft is being battered from all angles by the Internet, free software, freeOS, and google is making significant inroads into their cash cow market, MS Office, and they need to stop the bleeding. Personally, Open Office does all I need. One way to do it is to embrace standards, long the bugaboo of the monopoly control side of the MS conglomerate. Looks like there has been change of heart, IE8 MS says, will support web standards. Yet to be seen what that actually means, MS says IE8 will ship by June. MS says this means that the new IE8 browser now passes the Acid-2-rendering test.
Now I wonder if they will make a UNIX/Linux version? Cross platform baby, if you want to stay in the software business in the 21st century.
To test out your browser, head on over to AcidTest
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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