Re: More on IE5

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texte = That only is for windows version. This is from http://www.infoxczar.com/atat/Surprise, surprise; a nonprofit organization called the Web Standards Project is miffed about the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. According to an Associated Press article, this organization feels that IE 5.5 (which is due to appear for Windows soon, despite the fact that we Mac users only just got version 5.0) does not adequately support the software standards on which the World Wide Web was built. Pardon us while we pick our jaws up off the floor. Jeffrey Zeldman, the head of the group, says that Microsoft's browser still doesn't properly support HTML 4.0 or Cascading Style Sheets 1, and that if Microsoft does not fully implement these standards, their users will not be able to properly use some sites on the Web.Ha! Right. Apparently Mr. Zeldman's living in a perfect world, where monopoly abuses are the stuff of fairy tales and bedtime stories. The real-world translation follows: If Microsoft does not fully implement these standards, webmasters will re-code their pages to work with IE, because after Microsoft's illegal bundling of IE with Windows, the number of people using it is too big to be ignored. What's really funny is that Microsoft could hardly care less; in reaction to Zeldman's comments, a Microsoft product manager said that the company never intended to support all of the Internet standards approved by the World Wide Web Consortium. Like it or lump it.Now here's where the obligatory Mac angle gets worked in: apparently it's only the Windows version of Internet Explorer that has these problems. According to Zeldman, the Mac version of IE has complete and well-implemented standards... We look at the blueprints, and we don't see these standards in Microsoft's blueprints for IE for Windows, which is odd since they did a great job for the Mac. For once, we Mac users get the better Microsoft product. How crazy is that?>On Friday, 2 June 1939, Glenn Busbin <GBusbin@mindspring.com> wrote:>>http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/041200/micro.sml>> >>Group Says Microsoft's Latest>>Browser Doesn't Uphold Web Standards>>>>9:47 a.m. ET (1347 GMT) April 12, 2000>>By Michael J. Martinez�� SEATTLE � Microsoft Corp.'s latest Web browser, due>>out later this year, does not adequately support the software standards on>>which the World Wide Web was built, the head of a nonprofit Web developer>>group said Tuesday.>>>>Jeffrey Zeldman, head of the Web Standards Project, said Internet Explorer>>5.5 will introduce a number of new, proprietary technologies, but has yet to>>properly implement new standards � the codes that are used to>>build Web page>>>>>>------------------------------------------------------------->>This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>> the mailing list <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>.>>To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>>>To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to>><WebDNA-Talk-digest@talk.smithmicro.com>>>>>------------------------------------------------------------->This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>.>To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>>To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <WebDNA-Talk-digest@talk.smithmicro.com>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

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That only is for windows version. This is from http://www.infoxczar.com/atat/Surprise, surprise; a nonprofit organization called the Web Standards Project is miffed about the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. According to an Associated Press article, this organization feels that IE 5.5 (which is due to appear for Windows soon, despite the fact that we Mac users only just got version 5.0) does not adequately support the software standards on which the World Wide Web was built. Pardon us while we pick our jaws up off the floor. Jeffrey Zeldman, the head of the group, says that Microsoft's browser still doesn't properly support HTML 4.0 or Cascading Style Sheets 1, and that if Microsoft does not fully implement these standards, their users will not be able to properly use some sites on the Web.Ha! Right. Apparently Mr. Zeldman's living in a perfect world, where monopoly abuses are the stuff of fairy tales and bedtime stories. The real-world translation follows: If Microsoft does not fully implement these standards, webmasters will re-code their pages to work with IE, because after Microsoft's illegal bundling of IE with Windows, the number of people using it is too big to be ignored. What's really funny is that Microsoft could hardly care less; in reaction to Zeldman's comments, a Microsoft product manager said that the company never intended to support all of the Internet standards approved by the World Wide Web Consortium. Like it or lump it.Now here's where the obligatory Mac angle gets worked in: apparently it's only the Windows version of Internet Explorer that has these problems. According to Zeldman, the Mac version of IE has complete and well-implemented standards... We look at the blueprints, and we don't see these standards in Microsoft's blueprints for IE for Windows, which is odd since they did a great job for the Mac. For once, we Mac users get the better Microsoft product. How crazy is that?>On Friday, 2 June 1939, Glenn Busbin <GBusbin@mindspring.com> wrote:>>http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/041200/micro.sml>> >>Group Says Microsoft's Latest>>Browser Doesn't Uphold Web Standards>>>>9:47 a.m. ET (1347 GMT) April 12, 2000>>By Michael J. Martinez�� SEATTLE � Microsoft Corp.'s latest Web browser, due>>out later this year, does not adequately support the software standards on>>which the World Wide Web was built, the head of a nonprofit Web developer>>group said Tuesday.>>>>Jeffrey Zeldman, head of the Web Standards Project, said Internet Explorer>>5.5 will introduce a number of new, proprietary technologies, but has yet to>>properly implement new standards � the codes that are used to>>build Web page>>>>>>------------------------------------------------------------->>This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>> the mailing list <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>.>>To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>>>To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to>><WebDNA-Talk-digest@talk.smithmicro.com>>>>>------------------------------------------------------------->This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>.>To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>>To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <WebDNA-Talk-digest@talk.smithmicro.com>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to nospam

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