http://news.com.com/Reversal+Next+IE+update+divorced+from+Windows/2100-1032_3-5577263.html
Good news for web standards?
Being the eternal naysayer that I am, I'll say, um, nay.
Why?
>From the article linked, this quote from a ms spokesperson
Microsoft's Nash declined to shed any light on the question of features in the IE update, restricting his comments to planned security enhancements such as better defenses against phishing scams and improved spyware protection.
"Right now, the focus is security," Nash said. "There may be other things that are in there, but the goal is on security."
IE 6 buggy rendering engine it is then.
Sigh
john
p.s. developers everywhere are excited by this, checkout Slashdot, etc ad nauseam. Why? Cause no one RTFAs. The fineprint is that this is IE6 SP2 all over again.
If I were a cynic, I'd say this were directed at precisely that group (developers), who, um, are precisely the single greatest adopters of Firefox.
I'd go so far as to say it a tactical strike to attempt to stem the flow of developers to using Firefox as their main browser.
But that would be cynical, and MS are of course never cynical.
John Allsopp
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