Dec 30 2007
Will Microsoft be forced to make IE standard compliant?
Since I have switched to XHTML and standard compliant sources for the websites I create, I have lost like hundreds of hours becaue of IE, the hacks needed for it, and so on. Well, who hasn’t?
Apparently, about 2 weeks ago, Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in its Web browser, Internet Explorer. But this is not all. The long discussed topic of freeing IE from Windows is back again, as Opera once again, requested in their complaint that Microsoft frees IE from Windows because they restrict the right of genuine choice of browsers on the we, as Windows is bundled with IE from start.
Web developers and designers now create huge,rich web applications, and because of IE and it’s usage percentage, the work becomes frustrating as it doesn’t support web standards. Designers have to spend lots of hours to fix IE bugs instead of creating new websites for internet users.
What’s new about this kind of complaints is that Opera is not looking for any money from Microsoft.
So, spread the word of this to all your web developer friends and partners, and may be in the near future we will have the ability to create websites that work seamlessly on all devices, browsers etc. If we support Opera, that day may not be far away.
