Sorry for bringing up this (really) dead thread
But I finally got a response from the press team... suffice to say it
wasn't what I wanted to hear:
Brian Peterson wrote:
Hi David,
Thank you for the additional information and I appreciate your patience
with this request. However, I just heard
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To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Slightly OT... Interview with IE Dev team
Microsoft has been hyping about web-applications more than you'd
imagine, the MSDN Library is full of articles on the subject. 3 of the
included posters in the 2003 edition are about web
A while a go, I wrote a bit about the problems with IE [1], and asked
myself (and anyone reading) some questions about why Microsoft has not
done anything to make IE better in several years.
Several interesting theories are mentioned in the comments, but what I
think is most likely closest
A respondant to Roger's blog wrote:
Microsoft is not improving standards support in IE because they want
to discourage the use of the browser as a platform for developing
applications that are not operating system dependant. Improving support
for CSS, PNG, and other standards such as Xforms,
On 6 jan 2005, at 19.14, David R wrote:
But I'm convinced Microsoft will make IE7 support standards... why?
Because VS 2005 supports the entire XHTML1.1 and CSS2.1 spec, even if
Internet Explorer 6 doesn't. This would be wasting the VS dev team's
time if they weren't going to make these
Microsoft has been hyping about web-applications more than you'd
imagine, the MSDN Library is full of articles on the subject. 3 of the
included posters in the 2003 edition are about web-applications.
They don't think about W3C-standards based applications.
They are just using a buzzrword to
Kornel Lesinski wrote:
How *Microsoft* would benefit from supporting XHTML and CSS2?
To play the counter act here...
How does microsoft benefit by offering IE at all? It's free. Updates
are free. It costs them bandwidth for downloads and updates. It costs
them staff time to code, fix, patch,
, 2005 10:59 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Slightly OT... Interview with IE Dev team
Microsoft has been hyping about web-applications more than you'd
imagine, the MSDN Library is full of articles on the subject. 3 of the
included posters in the 2003 edition are about web
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To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Slightly OT... Interview with IE Dev team
I think
How does microsoft benefit by offering IE at all? It's free. Updates
are free. It costs them bandwidth for downloads and updates. It costs
them staff time to code, fix, patch, etc. and they don't get a dime off it.
Rhetorical I guess but it's a good point. MS benefits from ubiquity.
MS
I'd like to know what their reaction is to the IE7 project and whether or not
they would consider adding the functionality in one of their service pack
upgrades.
Ted
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:44 AM
To:
David R wrote:
I was wondering if any of you have any specific questions, queries, or
comments regarding the development of IE, and more specifically, IE7
which may, or may not, come with Longhorn (before... if we're lucky)
Well, one of the peeves most web developers have about IE is that it
Proper PNG support ?
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On Jan 5, 2005, at 12:44 PM, David R wrote:
'Lo guys
After being instigated by Channel9
(http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=34005 (And I'm W3bbo,
btw)) I
I was wondering if any of you have any specific questions, queries, or
comments regarding the development of IE, and more specifically, IE7
which may, or may not, come with Longhorn (before... if we're lucky)
Does Microsoft feel resposibility for the web?
Do they realize how much web traffic
LMFAO! hahahahahahahahaha
how about making it like firefox?
and how about seperating it from the os for all the dumb ppl who still use it
and pass on all the viruses
like the previous user suggested, how about actually FOLLING the w3c and not
going against it and trying to make everyone
After being instigated by Channel9
(http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=34005 (And I'm W3bbo,
btw)) I managed to get through to one of Microsoft's PR
interview-arrangers people.
I was wondering if any of you have any specific questions, queries, or
comments regarding the
Naturally they want to develop a better product,
Oh really? That's a laugh. All Microsoft is interested in is sticking a very
large hose directly into your wallet to suck as much cash out as possible.
This is the 8000-pound gorilla who believes in web standards as long as
those standards are
Naturally they want to develop a better product,
Oh really? That's a laugh. All Microsoft is interested in is sticking
a very
large hose directly into your wallet to suck as much cash out as
possible.
This is the 8000-pound gorilla who believes in web standards as long as
those standards are
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:22:45 -0500, Wayne Godfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh really? That's a laugh. All Microsoft is interested in is sticking a very
large hose directly into your wallet to suck as much cash out as possible.
This is the 8000-pound gorilla who believes in web standards as long
sure but maybe they should add some Ethical responsibilty to that as well
instead of trying to make this planet microsoft
they can start by being honest
and remove the whole os, wb interaction and maybe we could at least start to
get a handle on the virus situation
meanwhile billy is spend
responsibility only, which is to maximize return on investment. He has
done this incredibly well.
I'm deeply worried that Microsoft is just going to make tabbed browsing
add-on,
to put some fire out, and keep it's 12-year old engine.
From their point of view, following web standards is:
*
Actually I could not care less if there is another IE as I am more than
happy with Firefox. In fact when I re-installed XP I chose not to include IE
(it is still there for Windows Update etc but harder to choose as a default
browser).
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They should just ship firefox with longthorn and forget about IE7
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 04:44 am, David R wrote:
'Lo guys
After being instigated by Channel9
(http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=34005 (And I'm W3bbo,
btw)) I managed to get through to one of Microsoft's PR
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:17:48 +1100, Mariusz Stankiewicz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They should just ship firefox with longthorn and forget about IE7
No, thats crazy talk! ...but they could buy out Opera Software... ;)
--
regards, Kornel Lesiski
ummm
didnt I read
somewhere that the next IE browser will be with the next OS (longhorn) in 2006?
anyone confirm
that?
cheers
barry.b
heretic wrote:
I was wondering if any of you have any specific questions, queries, or
comments regarding the development of IE, and more specifically, IE7
which may, or may not, come with Longhorn (before... if we're lucky)
I would say that as far as I am concerned the ball is in their
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:07:32 +1000, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
didn't I read somewhere that the next IE browser will be with the next OS
(longhorn) in 2006?
anyone confirm that?
cheers
barry.b
G'day Barry ;D
That's the official word; though your 2006 delivery date is a bit
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