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Thursday 11 May 2006
Yes, We Have the Power
Yes, I have the power to enact change. Yes, I will continue to improve standards support and compliance in IE, and make the web better. That’s my job, my charter, my vision, and my passion. The day it isn’t, I’ll quit. The day the development of the standards-based platform in IE goes on a back burner again, I’ll quit. My management up to and including Bill Gates has said we are back in the saddle with IE, so I have a job to get back to.
– Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager of the Internet Explorer Platform team at Microsoft, “Microsoft, IE and the Web Standards Project“
Filed under: WaSP, software, standards
Posted by: Molly | 18:29 | Comments (22)
Admiral words. Good luck Chris.
Perfect.
This is what I posted on Chris’ site (with a deliberate broken link to make my point, ahem):
Good for you Chris. I repeat my offer of the special evil chicken that I cooked for Molly. I’m glad you’ve got such passion.
To those commentators who seems to suggest that Chris’ efforts are worthless because he has validation errors in this post, I say: get a sense of perspective.
As a WaSP task forcer, of course I believe standards are vital to the future of the Web. But are the validation errors in this post really more important than Chris’ work on I.E.? Of course not. Constructive criticism is always useful. Reductive sniping is never useful.
Excellent news – if we can believe it! On a side note does anyone know if IE7 beta2 is all the CSS fixes we’re getting, or will there be further changes to the rendering engine before the official release?
- seb
While they’re at it, better support for CSS2 and the application/xhtml+xml MIME type would be nice.
Seb: There’s a chat with the developpers later today — google for “IEBlog” and find out when exactly. They do one every month, in case you miss it
Good news indeed!
Having passionate people that refuse to give up, is what makes this industry worth working in.
Yeah – Microsoft’s good effort is always going to be the role model to the industry. Go Chris! Go Bill! Go Ballmer! You’re the best!
and about time too!
Blah, blah, blah. We’ve heard this for over a year and IE7 has turned out to be IE6 in a new wrapper. Microsoft Live doesn’t work with Firefox. Other Microsoft sites don’t work with Firefox or other browsers. I’m convinced this is all marketing. Promise them anything but give them the same.
If Microsoft was serious about web standards they would do something about it. They don’t. End of story. Spread Firefox/Opera/any other browser.
You know what? I don’t see why one should promote ANY web browser. Isn’t good accessible content the important? I think we shouldn’t write content for specific browsers anyway. Write guided by the latest recommendations, then let people decide if they want to view it “broken” or like it was supposed to be.
Now this all talk about Internet Explorer lately seems a bit redundant to me, and in fact, this is what I object to with WaSP: The web is content not what we access it with. Content is what’s important, so focus on that because it’s hard enough and the rest will solve itself. Come on! – Who wouldn’t want their trademark (read browser) all over this gigantic world of information we use? Competition will progress browsers I assure you all.
My recipe: help people who want to broaden their spectrum of visitors directly – and through simplifying guides, hints and promoting (why not even contributing!) advancements in authoring tools. That’s all.
I’m off to fight this war with myself (the great hypocrite) now. Try your best, y’all. And take care.
Daniel, what you write sounds illogical to me. We need standards to provide accessibility for all target groups. As long as a market dominating company provides their very own standards it is helpful to advertise any browser which works w3 conform.
If there wouldn’t be such strong communities behind alternative browsers, Microsoft wouldn’t push the IE 7 that much. I will use the IE 7 if it will stand the test. I am not a fanatic firefox maintainer. But I say: we need a healthy balance!
PS I don’t believe that IE will ever be fit to hold a candle to Firefox.
Firefox is the best, IE is a bug.
and also I don’t believe that IE will ever be fit to hold a candle to Firefox
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title Of Best Friends.
Enjoy
Actually Users are nearly forced to use IE with Windows Vista…
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