Is IE7 getting a beating or is it me?

Monday, August 21, 2006 7:00 AM

Posted by Jonathan Danylko | Tag: Microsoft | Comments: 0 | View blog reactions

I'm starting to notice more and more of how much flack IE7 is getting lately.

I'm not a big fan of IE, but lately, I've been noticing some articles that are beating up IE7. I've read the following post from Subtraction.com talking about The hidden costs of Internet Explorer:

Just how many hours of productivity have been lost to making Web page code work inside of Internet Explorer? Personally, I know that I’ve spent the equivalent of hundreds of man hours coaxing standards-compliant code to render properly in the I.E. world view, and the companies I’ve worked for have probably logged tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of man hours doing the same. When you add up all the effort similarly expended by designers, studios and corporations of all kinds all over the world and over the past five or ten years, it’s got to be an enormously expensive number; if you were to assign hourly rates to all that time, it might total in the billions of dollars.

But recently, the one that hit me the most was the post in defense of Internet Explorer at ArsTechnica.com. One user fired back at the Internet Explorer Group Program Manager Chris Wilson and made a comment that "Microsoft doesn't own the web, and it should stop arrogantly acting like it does and start playing by agreed upon standards." He concluded that IE7 couldn't even come close to the CSS support that Firefox and Opera has. If this is true, it makes me wonder why Microsoft isn't adhereing to the standards set by the W3C.

Because Microsoft can? (asked as a question, not a statement).

Lead a horse to the wat..errr..standards, but can't make him use them.

Another posting was made by a Slashdotter at the beginning of the month saying that Microsoft wasn't playing by the CSS rules and that Firefox and Opera were more CSS-compliant than IE. Ouch.

If you don't believe these people (and I know there are some doubters out there), check out the ACID test. According to users, the only browser that has passed the ACID test is Opera, but hot on its heels it Firefox 2.0 and its supposed to pass the ACID test with flying colors as well when it's released.

Has anyone else been noticing other articles or posts relating to IE7 and the implemented CSS not holding up to everyones...well...standards?

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