--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > On Jun 8, 2006, at 7:57 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > Gotta chuckle at your friend's naivete. IE has > > > long been known as the *least* standards-compliant > > > browser on the market. Microsoft seems to believe > > > that if they do it, that constitutes a 'standard.' > > > > All I know is when something doesn't work in Firefox, which > > occasionally happens, if I go to MSIE, it always has worked. Not > > sure why, it may be it handles *badly* written code better and > > Firefox is > > too standards compliant. in any event these people on the test team > > are far from naive, quite the opposite, he actually has switched to > > a Mac at home, builds his own PC's and uses Firefox! A Bay area > > developer just snagged him in any event. > > I don't doubt for a moment that if your friend > has worked on the QA team for IE *lately* that > standards have been their highest concern. That's > because they (Microsoft) have the worst of all > possible bad reps in the developer community for > non-adherence to standards. The worst were their... > uh...creative implementations of Java and Javascript, > but it extends pretty much across the board as I > hear it. >
Not to mention that, at one point, the OFFICIAL MS stance was that anything MS did was automatically a standard, even if no-one else was able to do it due to proprietary software (e.g. C#). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Everything you need is one click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AHchtC/4FxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
