Comments on: Bradbury on IE http://rwandering.net/2006/04/26/bradbury-on-ie/ The blogged wandering of Robert W. Anderson Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:40:46 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Robert W. Anderson http://rwandering.net/2006/04/26/bradbury-on-ie/comment-page-1/#comment-27596 Robert W. Anderson Wed, 10 May 2006 16:23:31 +0000 http://rwandering.net/2006/04/26/bradbury-on-ie/#comment-27596 I don't usually respond to the anonymous comment, Gill, but you make a good point though I find your conclusion extreme. Ruined everybody's Internet experience for years? Which Internet are you using? Mine is working pretty well. I agree that not following standards (and making up their own) has caused many problems and loss of developer productivity. It has also produced some good innovation. Use AJAX, I mean DHTML, I mean XMLHttpRequest much? I don’t usually respond to the anonymous comment, Gill, but you make a good point though I find your conclusion extreme.

Ruined everybody’s Internet experience for years? Which Internet are you using? Mine is working pretty well.

I agree that not following standards (and making up their own) has caused many problems and loss of developer productivity. It has also produced some good innovation. Use AJAX, I mean DHTML, I mean XMLHttpRequest much?

]]> By: Gill Bates http://rwandering.net/2006/04/26/bradbury-on-ie/comment-page-1/#comment-27588 Gill Bates Wed, 10 May 2006 03:13:30 +0000 http://rwandering.net/2006/04/26/bradbury-on-ie/#comment-27588 Nick Bradbury is wrong about IE and John Dvorak is right. The problem with the Windows integrated Internet browser isn't all its bugs and feature shortcomings, nor its huge history of security faults. No, it's Microsoft's decision to not follow standards and make up their own which ruins the day for users and developers. With the market impact Microsoft has, the reasons for complying to standards should be self-explanatory - also for Microsoft. In case they don't, here's why: Internet becomes a nightmare of web pages that doesn't work as expected and developers tend to ignore anything than what IE handles! I will go so far that to say Microsoft have ruined everybody's Internet experience for years and effectfully set back development of Internet - just like the church put a lid on creativity & art in the middle ages. Nick Bradbury is wrong about IE and John Dvorak is right. The problem with the Windows integrated Internet browser isn’t all its bugs and feature shortcomings, nor its huge history of security faults. No, it’s Microsoft’s decision to not follow standards and make up their own which ruins the day for users and developers.

With the market impact Microsoft has, the reasons for complying to standards should be self-explanatory – also for Microsoft. In case they don’t, here’s why: Internet becomes a nightmare of web pages that doesn’t work as expected and developers tend to ignore anything than what IE handles!

I will go so far that to say Microsoft have ruined everybody’s Internet experience for years and effectfully set back development of Internet – just like the church put a lid on creativity & art in the middle ages.

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