Dropped IE support for Instapaper

Re:Dropped IE support for Instapaper by feverishaaron on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @02:29AM (#501177)

I disagree. IE is the moving target. If you want maintainable code, it is best to build to standards, then hack to IE with conditionals.

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Re:Dropped IE support for Instapaper by jasonkester on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @01:24PM (#501719)

IE has had the same box model since 1995. It is, and always has been the standard.

If you recall, Netscape used that same box model until version 6. So if you'd like to look for a point where standards were broken, look to W3C and Mozilla. It's certainly not Microsoft's fault that the "standards" organization decided to change the fundamental way things are rendered in a browser.

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Re:Dropped IE support for Instapaper by noblethrasher on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @03:33PM (#501926)

Not to mention that IE's box-model (in quirks-mode) is actually sane compared to the W3C standard.

see : http://books.google.com/books?id=ZCPWYFoWaMIC&pg=PA289&#...

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Re:Dropped IE support for Instapaper by bdotdub on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @04:12PM (#502002)

Just because it's older doesn't mean that it should be the standard.

"Standards organizations" are there for a reason, so that issues like this wouldn't be so egregrious. Microsoft has had a while to fix it, and 8 years later far too many people are still using an old deprecated browser.

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