Microsoft's efforts towards (de facto or de jure) standards compliance are dismal. I've been working on a client-side app since before IE7 came out. The much h

Microsoft's efforts towards (de facto or de jure) standards compliance are dismal. I've been working on a client-side app since before IE7 came out. The much hyped IE7 release gave us some performance benefits, but apart from that it just added another IE release that had to be tested and tested. IE8 made things even worse. We now have scenarios that work fine in all recent (going back 1 to 3 major versions, you know, everything over the last few years) of Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but IE? Hahaha, you must be joking. It works in IE6 and IE8, but not IE7. Or just in IE8, or in IE6 and IE8, but not IE7... And now they're threatening to unleash yet another IE version. Why couldn't they just stick with IE8 for the time being and fix things there? (And don't tell me 'the version number is just marketing', we all know that major releases entail lots and lots of changes and 'fixing things we messed up before').