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Except if Microsoft get the kind of flak with IE8 that they got with
IE7, there's a risk that further attempts to make IE
standards-compliant will get canned by upper management.
Tim

On 2/19/08, amias <something at amias.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 13:44 +0000, Richard Price wrote:
>
> > What do you suggest they do?
>
> Become standards compliant and start to share there (few)
> innovations like other companies do instead of trying to
> infect everything you touch with proprietary crap.
>
> > Break millions of web pages just because
> > you think standards should come first?
>
> Those pages where broken , the designers chose the wrong format and used
> a broken proprietry system . bad decisions need a bit of comeupance
> other
> wise people don't learn.
>
> > Yes, because that will certainly make them popular.
>
> they are on the slippery slope already , this is just ballast.
>
> > At some point you just have to accept that yes the current situation
> > is a bad one, but cutting off all those badly written sites in one
> > fell swoop is nothing short of idiotic.
>
> They would still display , just maybe not in as nicely as before.
> Anyway doesn't this mean more money for developers as lots of sites
> need redoing ? sounds good for people who know what they are doing.
>
> Anyone producing content for IE should take this a warning call and
> simplify their sites to something that works the same in both browsers.
>
> Toodle-pip
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