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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:35:33 GMT
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> The reason the question can be interpreted both ways is because some companies
> (MS in particular) have a long history of leaving old bugs in place (not • fixing
> them in new releases) for reasons of backward compatibility. W.r.t. MS,
> I think this was true more in the old DOS days before the MSDN cashcow.
Backward compat is a sometimes difficult issue to deal with. Case in point,
because of the many differences in the rendering capabilities between Nav and
IE, many site authors have to write small workarounds to get even polarity in
rendering. On a case by case basis, we have to decide whether or not to
change a particular behavior based on the fact of backwards compatibility
alone. Believe me, we have very comprehensive statistics on who uses what
features.
Obviously, I'm coming into this thread kindof late. Sorry about that.
Day in and day out, I am amazed at what IE5 can do. The extensibility is
simply supurb. The rendering speed simply kicks Nav's ass (from perf stats).
Of course I'm baised. I haven't used Nav for years (seriously). Ideally (for
web developers and end-users), the world would use only one browser. I would
like to see that browser be IE.
Anything that I can do to help you "like" IE better, I will do. But _please_
limit your rants to the latest version 5.01. We've made it clear in other
posts that software companies don't fix old versions.
Give me bug reports!!
PS: I would love to reply to every post here, but I'm not good at arguing my
points (I'm not PR, I'm a tester :) I'm just fighting for my product as
anyone would do.
PPS: Keep an eye out for IE5.5. One really cool feature is IFRAME
transparency!
--
Asher Kobin
asherk@microsoft.com
Internet Explorer
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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| (...) I'd like to see that browser be Mozilla, but MSIE is still far, far more solid. BTW, does MS have any plans to release a Linux version of MSIE? Or is it recommended to run it under WINE instead? (...) This thread has helped a lot. I actually (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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| (...) for the love of god, please no! Ideally there would be 10s of browsers available, but they would all render the same pages in the same way. I have never used IE, and have no plans to - especially since there's no version for my OS of choice. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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| (...) For Linux users, Microsoft recommends following the instructions in this KB article: (URL) I can't answer your question, but I can say that Microsoft's awareness (and interest) of the Linux OS has increased dramatically, although it did take (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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| (...) Are you ignorant? Do you understant competition? What would happen If every car was the same? We want people to use our browser, so obviously we have to make it better (what the Linux world calls embrace and extend). We are more RFC compliant (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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| (...) LOL! Unless you can go back in time, it's literally impossible to fix bugs in older browsers! Once you fix the bug, you've created a new version, and the old version continues to exist. I think we interpreted Mike's question differently. I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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