Opera files complaint - an open letter to the Web community (wants to force MS to support standards)

Re:Opera files complaint - an open letter to the Web communi... by dcurtis on Thursday December 13, 2007 @02:46PM (#89269)

I think this letter is about 3 years late.

IE7 fixes most of the annoying stupid problems that used to drive me crazy; now I can develop a site in Safari and Firefox, and it usually works almost perfectly in IE7. I don't mean to say that IE7 is perfect, just that the problems aren't nearly as bad as they used to be.

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Re:Opera files complaint - an open letter to the Web communi... by nailer on Thursday December 13, 2007 @11:25PM (#89420)

Visit Acid 2 in Opera. It's fine.

Visit in in FF2. It's a little odd, but you can tell its a smiley face. In FF3 it's fine.

Visit in in Konq, or Safari, or Nokia browser. It's fine.

Visit in it IE 7.

Then make up your mind.

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Re:Opera files complaint - an open letter to the Web communi... by dcurtis on Thursday December 13, 2007 @11:47PM (#89428)

Yeah, theoretical tests show how shitty IE7 really is, but in practice, it works 98% of the time for me.

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Re:Opera files complaint - an open letter to the Web communi... by nailer on Friday December 14, 2007 @12:01AM (#89432)

You're completely right - IE7 works fine for users. But that level of user support would be a lot easier for developers to achieve if we didn't have to code around its quirks.

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Re:Opera files complaint - an open letter to the Web communi... by dcurtis on Friday December 14, 2007 @11:07PM (#89801)

My point is that it has like 95% fewer quirks than IE6. And I was referring to it as a developer.

It still is hideous. Why did they take they file/edit menus off? That was probably the worst user interface mistake in the history of Microsoft, only to be superseded by the Office 2007 interface.

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