Comments on: Microsoft Backflips on Browser Version Targeting

By: wolfear

wolfear — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:40:21 +0000

Do I think this is a good thing?…most definitely.
Does MS deserve all this patting on the back and love fest?..no way.
MS pundits and trolls will be raving now trying to convince us that MS really is going to live up to their promises.
Putting in a new washer to fix the IE faucet doesn’t stop up all the other holes in the MS plumbing.

By: headbank

headbank — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:32:19 +0000

Amazing, that’s all I can say. I did *not* see Microsoft rolling over on this issue.

I do wonder if they might now be succumbing to a tiny bit of ego? With IE7 (and IE8 to come) they’ve played catch-up like a champ, surpassing the expectations of many web-standards pundits. It looks like they have the ambition to thunder into pole position in the standards game, which undeniably would be the biggest bloody nose they could possibly hand out to the upstart Firefox. And, dare I say it, it’s beginning to seem like the IE team have the skills to achieve it as well.

Watch this space! The next few months are going to be dramatic.

By: bockereyer

bockereyer — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:35:13 +0000

Hear, hear!

Some healthy competition never hurts.

One thankful web designer/Firefox user.

By: AlexW

AlexW — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:27:32 +0000

Therefore it’s not the time to take the pressure off MS with kind comments.

Yani

That makes the assumption that it was the constant finger-wagging and nattering that made them eventually sit up and listen. I don’t think there’s much evidence for that. They felt no reason to develop IE6 from 2000 to 2006 despite almost constant bollocking from all quarters. People had pretty much got bored or simply run out of breath by the time Microsoft decided that Firefox was threatening their market position and they needed to respond with IE7.

If they were seriously worried about criticism, it would have been far easier to have kept their heads down and put IE7+ in the too hard basket. This thread is proof that doing something,… anything,.. will attract more stick than doing nothing.

The most pressure you ever put on Microsoft was the day you installed Firefox on your Dad/Nanna/brother’s computer and showed them how to use it.

By: akayani

akayani — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:08:25 +0000

I know it is only beta one but… MS have bragged for months that they have passes Acid2. Reality is that this is a lie. They ‘almost’ pass Acid 2 as anyone who downloads the beta can easily discover.

But for Acid3 their current score is 11/100. Firefox 3 Beta 3 and Safari 3 both score >55/100.

Therefore it’s not the time to take the pressure off MS with kind comments.

Yani

By: Katalutys

Katalutys — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:45:35 +0000

Anytime time anyone conforms to standards, it’s a win (whether they are liked or not). If you have had to code around issues, to get your message across in most browsers !!!! you know this is a very good step forward.

Does this put us all on the same page!!! (now thta’s a scary thought). Cheers

By: Bert Farry

Bert Farry — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:49:06 +0000

This is great no more hacks in web pages to get it to work with IE. I know that there will be IE 6-7 still out there but the numbers will get smaller at least for the clients I work for.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:04:54 +0000

yessssss

By: jfejsa

jfejsa — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:22:11 +0000

As a web developer I can only say this “ABOUT @#%^#$ TIME MICROSOFT”. Web development was a pain thanks to Internet Explorer (Microsoft) and few other browser.

In the past it was like having to build separate roads for different cars because some car manufactures didn’t like to drive on the same road as other cars and since they also certainly didn’t like to follow laws and recommendations made by governing bodies and people of the world these roads had to be made of different material and shapes - it’s still not perfect but getting better.

ABOUT TIME YOU JOIN REST OF THE WORLD MICROSOFT…

By: XraySierra

XraySierra — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:39:01 +0000

Congratulations Microsoft, keep it up!