A true WTF Microsoft style
February 20th, 2008
It doesn't happen very often that I see stuff which will make me speechless or just *really* give me this strong WTF feeling.
This one though which I stumbled upon did a great job.
What will be next?
The arch enemies GNU/Linux troll, MacOS imp and the ugly UNIX beast in the list? What do you think?
PS: For more happenings like this I recommend this reading literature for further study ;)
Internet Explorer 8 passes the ACID 2 test
December 20th, 2007
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 passes the ACID 2 test.
Yes, you read right. I can't belive it either. All those hours and hours of monkey patching and conditional CSSing will this really be a thing of the past ? This is for me as a hobby and freelancing webdeveloper just plainly - incredible.
Finally M$ seems to have managed it back on the standards path proposed by the Webstandards advocacy group (and the rest of the world). This has to sides of a coin. It's good for webdevelopers but bad for our OSS friends on the browser front. From a quote on the webstanards.org page:
- ,,This doesn’t necessarily mean that IE8 has fixed all its float oddities, or its hasLayout hilarities. But what it does mean is that there is another browser war, and Microsoft did decide to come.''
Here are some results of other Browsers regarding this test.
Is there light at the end of the tunnel ?
In their blog post Dean Hachamovitch writes something which gives me a good and then a very bad feeling though.
- ,,Standards are a (critical!) means to this end, and we focus on the standards that will help actual, real-world interoperability the most. As a consumer and a developer, I expect stuff to just work, and I also expect backwards compatibility. When I get a new version of my current browser, I expect all the sites that worked before will still work.''
By all means how can you keep backwards compatibility to something (<= IE7 ) which is plainly just broken ? If Microsoft really takes it serious about dominating the browser market they need to break with the past sorry excuses for a browser. Hey I know I am just critical right? Please don't listen to me, even the guys who are developing this thing said the same. Quote:
- ,,We fully recognize that IE is behind the game today in CSS support.''
It's great though that there is finally something happening about this ! I really hope they can pull this stunt to stay compatible to the total crap^W^Wnice IE5/6/7 tuned pages as this will save a lot of developers more nerves. Otherwise I rather like to forget all about those ugly hacks which I learned over the time for those releases of IE.
Fellow developers beware seems we ought to take this browser ,serious' again ?
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