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Joel Spolsky has an excellent write-up called "Martian Headsets" that explains why MS is damned either way on standards issues. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/i
by ambition 18y ago
Joel Spolsky has an excellent write-up called "Martian Headsets" that explains why MS is damned either way on standards issues.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html
It should be mandatory reading for everyone who supports web standards.
- mattmaroon 18y agoMS is in a lot of situations where they're screwed either way, but people tend not to feel sorry for companies with market caps over the quarter trillion mark.
- astrec 18y agoExcellent? I much prefer Mark Pilgrim's translation: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/03/18/translation-from-ms-speak-to-english-of-selected-portions-of-joel-spolskys-martin-headsets http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/03/18/translation-from...