Re:Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
by rhizome on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @05:32PM
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conservative lot who are terrified that Microsoft will push something that will break their cheap-ass intranet
Due to...everybody say it with me...lack of standards support.
Re:Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
by bzbarsky on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @08:53PM
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No, it's due to so many intranet applications being written as one-browser hacks completely ignoring standards.
Mozilla has had similar issues with intranets (though not to as large an extent, due to their smaller install base), and you can't exactly blame _that_ on lack of standards support. What you _can_ blame it on is things like people writing intranet apps that depend on the user flipping some hidden pref in the browser to relax a security policy and then breaking when that pref is later removed, say.
Re:Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
by FuzzyDunlop on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @07:47AM
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Funnily enough, we had a similar problem at one of my previous employers with Firefox 3.6.
If an institution sticks doggedly to one version of one browser, then it stands to reason any intranet software is going to be optimised for nothing other than that.
Re:Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
by chrismcbride on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @05:39PM
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Do you have a source for that? From what I can tell its yearly releases.
Microsoft has played many sneaky pete tricks in the browser wars (such as supporting a CSS standard that couldn't be correctly implemented in Netscape's codebase) but you can't blame their release schedule entirely on that -- Windows users tend to be a conservative lot who are terrified that Microsoft will push something that will break their cheap-ass intranet that's held together with string and ear wax.