Feb 16, 2005

IE7

IE7 is coming.

I hope that Firefox has enough of a loyal base that it won’t matter too much. I think it does. I know a lot of people who have had bad experiences with IE, and would never switch back.

Most of me wants IE7 to be terrible so that as few people use it as possible, but part of me is thinking about how much easier my life would be if it had improved and standardized CSS support.

And you know what? Even if it’s “better” (however you want to define that) than Firefox, I won’t use it. Because I believe in what the Mozilla Foundation is doing, and I think it’s noble and good. It’s something I can get behind. Microsoft just wants to make money. It’s a matter of principle, however foolish that might be in this situation.

Posted at 10:32 PM in Geek

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3 Comments

Justin LaSelva at 1:25 AM on 2/25/05

IE7 will suck. It’s a Microsoft product.

And because it’s a Microsoft product, everyone will use it, and Mozilla will be crushed just like Netscape was, and will be forever relegated to the ranks of CSS nazis (like you and me) and techno-geeks.

And because it’s a Microsoft product, it’s “standards” implementation will be incoherent, nonstandard, and just plain wrong, just like the current version of IE. To think that Microsoft cares about lofty ideals like “web standards” is to think that Microsoft cares at all about user experience and interoperability.

Loden at 2:30 AM on 2/25/05

One of the things that bothers me most about IE is that because so many people use it, its shitty implementation of web standards have become a standard of their own. People create non-compliant sites that work in IE because it’s the best way to get to the most people. I’m afraid that someday IE’s interpretation of the internet will become the true, accepted interpretation.

Justin at 1:33 PM on 2/26/05

I think your fears are realized in your own thoughts: “its shitty implementation of web standards have become a standard of their own”. Build it (or, I guess, neglect to build it) and they will come? Seems like that’s what happened with IE.

Microsoft has the money to crash everyone’s party. It’s no fair.