Submitted by Travis Estill (not verified) on Fri, 2006-11-17 10:15.
IE7 is just another example of the contempt Micro$oft shows toward its customers. They only spent a few months developing this release, and what is there to show for it? Tabbed browsing? How about some decent CSS support, Bill? No, this release is simply their attempt to gain back lost market share.
It will cost billions to fix websites for "compliance" with IE7. We can only hope that more developers (and clients) will embrace standards set by the W3C and that standards-compliant browsers will continue gaining market share.
Backward-compatibility is nice; standards-compliance is better. The web has been held hostage long enough by browsers that cannot follow standards from 1998. Ideas such as nested tables and FONT elements were short-sighted and deserve to break in this day and age.
IE7 is just another example of the contempt Micro$oft shows toward its customers. They only spent a few months developing this release, and what is there to show for it? Tabbed browsing? How about some decent CSS support, Bill? No, this release is simply their attempt to gain back lost market share.
It will cost billions to fix websites for "compliance" with IE7. We can only hope that more developers (and clients) will embrace standards set by the W3C and that standards-compliant browsers will continue gaining market share.
Backward-compatibility is nice; standards-compliance is better. The web has been held hostage long enough by browsers that cannot follow standards from 1998. Ideas such as nested tables and FONT elements were short-sighted and deserve to break in this day and age.