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Have you ever worked on a product team? I can almost guarantee you the developers had very little to do with the lack of standards support. That's a feature, a

• tgriesser 16y ago
  No, I clearly haven't. The comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek but I guess it didn't come across that way. I guess what I was getting at is that no other browser has websites dedicated to its demise, logging the number of hours lost, or the like. Although I realize that much of this comes from earlier versions of the browser that is supposedly going to be addressed in the IE9 which is currently scoring a 95 on the ACID3 in the most recent release, it took awhile to get there. Also, that seems surprising to me that standards support is considered a feature. Now with the full disclosure that I have absolutely no experience developing a browser or anything nearly on that scale it seems surprising that developing something the way it is laid out by an organization such as the W3C (say what you will about html5) would be considered highly optional, and in that case upper/middle management should prioritize this. The fact that things like the IE=EmulateIE7 meta tag even exist shows that there is something inherently broken. I guess devs was the wrong word to use, what I meant was that MS should seriously take a look at the browser landscape and figure out what it can do to help its developers. Every time I work on a front end and I get frustrated by IE inconsistencies, that's one more time that I'm cursing Microsoft... and that is not good for business.