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Microsoft listens to the developers
Earlier this year, Microsoft controversially indicated that many of the eagerly anticipated features of the Internet Explorer 8 browser were to be disabled unless a webpage was specifically edited to make a request to turn them on.
The idea was that this could allow the large number of websites built to to work with Microsoft's (buggy) browser, but not built to industry best practices (notably corporate intranets), would continue to work by default. However, by manually opting into webstandards, it makes it too easy for websites to be lazily built without adhering to best practices, not to mention complicating web development and Microsoft's browser development and creating lots of debate.
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The Internet Explorer 8 doctype smackdown
Over recent weeks, and at Kiwifoo (pictured), there's been some considerable debate about Microsoft's proposed features of the Internet Explorer 8 release.
Microsoft has failed to upgrade a large percentage of their browser users from v6 to v7 because many intranets and web-applications were not designed for standards, and so break when you upgrade. Microsoft's suggestion is for webpages to indicate they are 'compatible' with newer versions of IE, so that existing pages don't break. This doesn't allow sites broken in IE6 to work, and is fraught with other problems, athough it is similar to how the problem of breaking the web has been dealt with in the past.
FireFox, Safari, and Opera work closely with each other, and use a public, open process for their browser development and genuinely strive for consensus with the developer community about their direction. Microsoft would be wise to follow suit if they genuinely wanted to reclaim marketshare and goodwill with the web developer community.
3 Comments Tags: kiwifoo, standards
New Zealand E-Government Guidelines
at standards-schmandards.com
Peter Krantz has posted a summary of the NZ government's compliance with their new e-government guidlines. A few points have come out of this.
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How do humans win?
Webstock is here! We've been in heads-down mode for a while, working on sites for councils, Air New Zealand, and American clients too. So now is the time to celebrate the local scene and be proud of Webstock!
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