MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 30/05/2011 06:49, Paul B. Gallagher told the world:
In the long term, if enough sites were compliant, M$ would have to shape
up. In the real world, of course, the whip is in the other hand. :-(
Actually, I understand that IE9 is reasonably compliant (not 100%, but
near enough for most purposes), and the gap has been closing since IE7.
IE6 and older are the really, really bad boys around, and even Microsoft
is trying to make people switch:
<http://www.ie6countdown.com/>
So it appears that they ARE shaping up. Unfortunately, there are still
too many copies of IE6 in use.
Good to hear.
The reasons I still stay away from IE nowadays are not so much
standards-compliance, but:
1- Security (MS has a dirt-poor track record in that)
Fair point.
2- IE is designed as a dumbest-user browser. I mean, they admitted that
the IE9 layout assumes that "very few users" open more than 3 tabs.
That's aiming for the low end of the market. Meanwhile, Mozilla was
previewing a way to make it easier to manage dozens of tabs...
Actually, they're right on this. There've been times when I had
half-a-dozen tabs open, but those are rare, and I could live very easily
without that capability. I have friends who say they have over a hundred
tabs open routinely, but try as I may, I can't imagine a situation where
I would want that, even if the browser supported it. I don't deny their
taste, but it's not mine, and AFAIK it's not the taste of the vast
majority of users.
3- A general lack of trust in their design goals. Microsoft in the past
tried to leverage IE into a MS-centric Web, and I have no doubts they
will attempt to do that again as soon as they feel strong enough.
For me it's more a difference in taste than actual /distrust/ of their
design goals. Sure, I distrust them on security, but that's a separate
issue.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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