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If there was a time for Microsoft to make amends for all the bullshit we, web developers had to put up with in the past 10 years or so, it is now. Hopefully the
by tzaman 14y ago
If there was a time for Microsoft to make amends for all the bullshit we, web developers had to put up with in the past 10 years or so, it is now. Hopefully they'll catch up with Firefox and Chrome.
- meaty 14y agoVersus the bullshit we have to put up from the other vendors who throw out new features which everyone else has to pick up via peer pressure even though they are poorly designed?
- tzaman 14y agoYes, new (or more importantly, useful) features are one of the best ways of growth. If they are poorly designed, that's another story :)
- kmfrk 14y agoThe worst part for me is having four friggin' variations of the same rule, quadrupling my loc, and making a mess of the tidiness of it all.
- bti 14y agoThis does get ridiculous. Making a simple one page site that uses many new CSS3 features gets out of control. I've switched to Sass/Compass and haven't looked back.
- kmfrk 14y agoYeah, I was just thinking that. It might be time to use a framework where I only have to type it once, and where it only displays one line of styling.
- tomelders 14y agoIf you're using advanced features because of peer-pressure, then more fool you. If you're using advanced features because you've found a use for them, but you're not using SASS and mixins (or similar), then again, more fool you The other vendors are actually churning out progress and the burden or integrating that progress into your work is entirely optional. Microsoft can't even implement years old specs, and the burden associated with their inability to create even a bog basic browser is not optional.
- preavy 14y agoOn one aspect, font rendering, they have overtaken Firefox and Chrome. HN for example is way more readable on IE10.
- ygra 14y agoWhich strikes me as rather strange since I thought both of them would use Direct2D/DirectWrite as well by now. But demos like Scrolling Text [1] or animated text justification [2] leave much to be desired in Chrome and FF. The latter demo at least looks ok in Firefox. [1] http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/ScrollingText/Default.xhtml http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/ScrollingText/... [2] http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/TextJustificationAnimated/Default.html http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/TextJustificat...