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They may care about the browser, but I fear they care about regaining market share more than anything else. They had a firm lead for a long time, but more and

They may care about the browser, but I fear they care about regaining market share more than anything else. They had a firm lead for a long time, but more and more I see sites making support for non-IE browsers a top priority and the IE market share is shrinking. If Microsoft uses tests like these to try to divide the browser market by essentially defining its own spec, I think it will be bad for the internet at large.

jasonlotito 16y ago
To be fair, these tests were submitted, and apparently developed with the W3C. They aren't MS-only tests. Merely tests that needed to be developed anyways. At least, that's what I see. Yes, these are tests where MS succeeds. That doesn't mean they are less worthy. Rather, they are just more cases that the W3C felt needed to be tested.
WorkerBee 16y ago
they care about regaining market share MS is a big beast, and "market share" means different things to different parts of MS. The developer tools division, which makes, among other things, ASP.NET server-side environment for serving web pages, cares increasingly about working on any browser. And this is a good thing. If you want to know what the IE9 team thinks about HTML 5 and cross-browser issues, try some of these: HTML5: Cross-Browser Best Practices http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL27 http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL27 HTML5: High-Performance Best Practices for Web Sites http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL29 http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL29 In-Depth Look at Internet Explorer 9 http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL28 http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL28