Re: crappy iPod!

tom_elam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote
(in article <kko292h2f7k9llv4pejtl345d4sa7vm157@xxxxxxx>):

Hmmm, send me a URL that does not work properly when viewed with IE 7


How about this, from a blog on the MSDN site by Chris Wilson:

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I want to be clear that our intent is to build a platform that
fully complies with the appropriate web standards, in particular
CSS 2 ( 2.1, once it¹s been Recommended). I think we will make a
lot of progress against that in IE7 through our goal of removing
the worst painful bugs that make our platform difficult to use
for web developers.
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MS employees admit IE is a pain in the ass for web developers.

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In that vein, I¹ve seen a lot of comments asking if we will pass
the Acid2 browser test published by the Web Standards Project
when IE7 ships. I¹ll go ahead and relieve the suspense by saying
we will not pass this test when IE7 ships.
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Slam dunk. He follows up with some weasel words about how it's
too hard to pass, yet Safari has managed to do so.

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We fully recognize that IE is behind the game today in CSS
support. We¹ve dug through the Acid 2 Test and analyzed IE¹s
problems with the test in some great detail, and we¹ve made sure
the bugs and features are on our list - however, there are some
fairly large and difficult features to implement, and they will
not all sort to the top of the stack in IE7.
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Translation: IE7 is still going to be fundamentally flawed wrt
CSS when it's 'done'.



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