Internet Explorer wake up - good standards are not always easy to swallow :-)

My point on IE is also as a developer. I know what I am going to say will surely sound paradoxal (and you can call me crazy), but I love the wrong standard acceptance in IE.

Why? Because until recently, all my colleagues around me (they are not developers) were quite easily happy with the projects I developed for them, having 95% of users running well a site was quite ok, not perfect but ok in my world.

Indeed, I am not building any e-commerce site, so maybe it's different in this case.

But suddenly, all the folks in my company (and elsewhere) heard a lot of nice dudes screaming we have a better browser than IE, and it has all the standards compliances (CSS, XHTML, etc...) everybody should expect.

Of course I coud be delighted, but no and no. I am still the only developer in my company, and this make me overloaded with dozen of dozens of browsers tests forgotten in a dark corner of my laptop, some reminiscence of the prehistoric age of Netscape.

Now I am preaching against what I believe in but is it really necessary to walk backward ?

And my wrath against IE team too, who think that everything has been done in browser world, and they can sleep on their laurels.

No wake up, and show us you can surprise us.

 

1 Comment

  • Scott I keep the book in mind, but the solution you offer is for new projects. what's about the existing one, you know the one you cherish and you love,and where you spend your not so much out :-)

    Well they are now looking ugly on new browsers !

    So agree to apply standard, but you know as a developer can be so lazy especially when is the only living smart beast in the building (just joking:-))

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