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carrja99
09-22-2003, 10:10 PM
Just out of curiousity... why does MS refuse to implement DOM 2 over DOM 0 in thier browser?
I perfer DOM 2's overall style and would rather conform to it... but I have to keep in mind that 70% of the world probably still uses IE, and although it'd be nice to leave the IE users in the cold like some backward minded sites do to non-IE users, those are potentials customers and, therefore, shouldn't be ignored. I mean, you don't open a small store and then turn customers away for wearing hats.
So, any thoughts on when (or if) MS will see the error of thier ways and implement DOM 2 in the next release of IE?
bwkaz
09-23-2003, 07:22 PM
Originally posted by carrja99
any thoughts on when (or if) MS will see the error of thier ways and implement DOM 2 in the next release of IE? A better question for you to be pondering is, "Will Microsoft ever release another version of IE?"
Because IE6 is about, oh, two years old by now, I think. Browsers that support DOM 2 are much newer. And that's the problem.
In my naivete, I would say "anybody still using IE would be advised to upgrade to a standards-compliant browser, like anything that's been released in the past two years". But that's just me, I don't care if IE-using people can't read a site I make... ;)
carrja99
10-09-2003, 07:19 PM
Heh... looks like I'm not alone in *****ing about microsofts lack of innovation...
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5088642.html?tag=nefd_lede
And in other news, I had to spend 4 hours today debugging a website because a client complained there was an error. Of course, it turned out to be IE specific... the javascript worked fine in every other browser I tried.
bwkaz
10-09-2003, 10:16 PM
"Because it owns the marketplace, Microsoft's under very little pressure to fix remaining IE 6 bugs," said Jeffrey Zeldman, an independent Web developer and cofounder of the Web Standards Project. Hmm, imagine that. Large monopoly implies we all lose. Duh.
There was also a comment about:
coupled with the implosion of AOL Time Warner's Netscape browser development efforts that made me start to wonder how clueless the people that wrote that really are. Do they not understand that because Mozilla is open-source, and because it has so much development momentum, it is still around, even after AOL laid off the Netscape people?
Actually, there seemed to be a distinct lack of mention of Mozilla anywhere in that article's main text (it did appear in the sidebar and one of the footnote thingies). Sad.
their next browser is apparently going to be the one they release with their new "Longhorn" OS and it will only be available to people who upgrade to "Longhorn". there is a rumor that it is going to be like that ugly MSN browser thing they have.