IE: the definition of non-standards
On April 12, 1999, the W3C announced “Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows, Solaris and HP-UX”. For those if you who aren’t sure how much the Internet has changed in the last 5+ years, I’ve got a horse drawn carriage you can use for that trip to the Grand Canyon next spring.
Yes, we now have IE 6, but as for standards support for CSS, we’ve gained little. The not-so-funny issues range from the constant evolvement of practically every other browser to be standards compliant to the fact that IE is still the browser being used up to 90% of the time.
What does this mean for web developers? You’ll have my answer tomorrow…