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There's no doubt IE is a piece of junk, but I would imagine that has more to do with the business end more than anything else. It's not as if programming a brow
by jm4 17y ago
There's no doubt IE is a piece of junk, but I would imagine that has more to do with the business end more than anything else. It's not as if programming a browser is that difficult; choosing exactly which features to support can be.
The web development world is basically the Wild West. There aren't really any rules. The standards we do have can be vague or incomplete. At some point you find yourself making the decision to follow web developers' intent instead of a so-called standard.
Pile on top of that a desire on Microsoft's part to take every opportunity to keep people on the Windows platform and you've got a recipe for disaster for anyone who has to support multiple browsers. I don't think there's any group of developers that could produce something in that kind of environment that we would be happy with.