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Weblog:   Should You Give Up Internet Explorer?
Subject:   Other websites?
Date:   2004-07-08 07:12:14
From:   jwenting
Response to: Other websites?

None of the data collected by the Windows Update control is ever sent over the net except the list of updates it is requesting from the server (hard to get them otherwise).


As to standards support, in that IE excels thank you very much.
It's simply THE most complete implementation of the HTML, ECMAScript and CSS standards as well as XSLT and XML.
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  • Other websites?
    2004-07-14 06:25:33  kyleadams [Reply | View]

    Wow. That is just about the most ignorant statement I've ever seen about IE and standards support. Go ahead, test it for yourself--try the W3C's CSS test suites. Be sure run through the selectors suite in IE.

    Of course, if IE was truly standards compliant, we wouldn't need things like Dean Edwards' IE7, would we?

    Anyone with a lick of knowledge about Web development knows that IE's support for standards is abysmal. Anyone claiming otherwise needs to do some more research.
  • Most complete standards implementation
    2004-07-14 02:24:07  paulwaite [Reply | View]

    Hee hee hee hee hee! That's a good one. IE good as CSS. Hee hee hee! I'm sure it's fine at everything else, but as far as CSS goes, IE6 is almost the new Netscape 4 (http://www.evolt.org/article/Browser_Wars_II_The_Saga_Continues/25/60181/).
  • Other websites?
    2004-07-11 14:17:20  badguy [Reply | View]

    IE isn't that good at standards - it implements them but isn't very complient as it doesn't strictly inforce the syntax.
    For example in Java Script on IE you can do document.forms(form) whereas it should be document.forms[form]
    Firefox supports all the standards you mention.
  • Standards support
    2004-07-08 09:50:04  look_to_windward [Reply | View]

    It was more the fact that it can look at your system etc that worried me, not that it would send info to microsoft in that particular instance. I'm sure it's ignorant paranoia : )

    Re Standards support, there are a few things which I've found frustrating about IE (various versions), like the lack of support for transparency in PNGs without a horrible hack (AlphaImageLoader), and various CSS problems - here's a few:

    http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html

    I wouldn't call that the best support, it's not bad, but there are better browsers, and Microsoft doesn't seem inclined to fix it before 2007. According to that table, it doesn't seem to be the most complete implementation at all (of CSS). The XSLT support is very nice, I wish other browsers had that.
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