IE Project Manager says IE7 cannot Match Firefox & Opera

[bonzodog]

Essentially, this is about CSS standards.

The project manager for Internet Explorer has publically admitted that IE7 cannot hope to match Firefox or Opera for CSS compliance.

The summary:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/8/16/4999

The Actual Blog post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/cwilso/archive/2006/08/10/694584.aspx

The Digg Post:
http://digg.com/software/IE_Project_Manager_says_IE7_Can_t_Match_Firefox_Op era

[ember]

Not that it makes lacking standard compliance in the Internet Explorer any better, but I can understand him. The larger a project gets the lesser progress you make implementing it bugfree and feature-complete.

Yet it poses the question where Microsoft is heading with its development. Actually I wonder whether they will some day rewrite a new HTML/XML rendering engine from scrath and replace the current one with it.

[DoctorMO]

What they should do is make a sort of open source thingy where parts are built by different teams to the specification.

[BWF89]

Building a browser but not conforming it to W3C standards is like building a railroad system but not running your cars on the internationally recognised timezone system and saying "not our fault" when trains collide.

[RavenOfOdin]

And this comes as a surprise how?

[Polygon]

Building a browser but not conforming it to W3C standards is like building a railroad system but not running your cars on the internationally recognised timezone system and saying "not our fault" when trains collide.

basically. at least they are honest about it. more reason to use firefox/opera :D

[Iandefor]

From the blog post:


not only is this old information, but it’s not even factually correct (which I’d like to think is a requirement for Slashdot posts).

The man has clearly never read a slashdot article :-P.

[mrgnash]

When some guy has to fight tooth and nail just to get CSS 'implemented' at all, it suggests that something is deeply wrong with the culture at Microsoft (not that many here don't know this already).

Personally, I'm sick of having to write copious workarounds into both markup and CSS just to make pages legible in IE; and given the glacial progress of the IE team it doesn't seem like these workarounds will become obsolete anytime soon.