July 2004
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More IE
Some people might put me in the Microsoft basher category after reading my last post. This is not true at all. For example, I was part of the team that selected a Microsoft Solution recently. This solution will, among other things, power our new website. But it does bother me that a year ago, Microsoft seemed to be completely disengaged in moving Internet Explorer forward in the short term. I believe in web standards and IE needs a lot of work to fully support the CSS2 specs and transparent ping support.
Microsoft displayed a certain arrogance because of their dominant position in the browser market. I assume this wasn’t intended and recently, a grass roots PR campaign is trying to fix this, in particular through a number of weblogs:
- IEBlog, the Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog
- Dave Massy, Program Manager
- Jeff Dav, part of the UI team
- Tony Schreiner, Developer
There’s also a Wiki . Smoke and mirrors? Or will we see the improvements the web community has been craving soon?
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To IE or not to IE
I’ve had some interesting discussions about browsers and minimum requirements. Most professionals still seem to like to limit their efforts to one browser, Internet Explorer. And preferably 5.5 and up. Betting on one browser that happens to be the dominant browser today causes a significant risk if that would change. Because of security issues, U.S. government’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), issued a warning strongly suggesting that users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer should switch to another Web browser. That resulted in some very bad press recently, and a (slight) reduction in market share. This could lead to a cascading effect, resulting regular users changing their browser. And website owners who are only focused on Internet Explorer having to do major re-designs. I for one, don’t have budget for this.
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