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Posted by: Stuart

I enjoy working with HTML, XHTML, CSS and designers as a web developer. At home I enjoy listening to music, playing music, reading and food.

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Posted on: 20 July 2004

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No Support for XHTML?

I was over at Mezzoblue and went through a couple of links, as you do, and came to Hixie’s Natural Log. It’s an interesting read but I thought I’d extract this quote for you all to digest:-

“Another point that came out of the discussions is that, in case there was any doubt, Internet Explorer in Longhorn will not support XHTML or SVG. (Microsoft suggested they would need some significantly more comprehensive test suites before they started working on standards compliance again.)”

So that’s back to square one then!!

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Root
Did you read my article on Longhorn strategy earlier. I was absolutely spot on. This is going to be the end of web standards and web design as we know it. I can see a MS only doctype coming. I ******** **** **** MS.
20 July 2004, 20:42
Stuart
Yes I read that Root. I've been keeping an eye on a site related to Longhorn for some time now (not the one here but one I linked to in an earlier post). They really don't seem to give a damn do they? They've dusted off their IE programmers to develop IE7 for Longhorn. They have a lot of "catching up" to do relative to other browsers but they don't seem to be catching up on the points that really matter to web site developers. They should have left the programmers in the basement where they've been for the last couple of years. I really believe that it is Microsoft's intention to take over the internet by proxy and I think that the only way to stop them is through legislation of some kind which requires that ALL of the net should be accessible to EVERYONE regardless of software preference. I'm afraid that there are not enough non-IE users yet to steer Microsoft down the right course. Money, money, money. This story will just keep running.
20 July 2004, 21:35
Root
Well once they get set up with their Longhorn Client and Server model they are going to say that their (MS) network protocols (including the MS only new internet protocol) are none of our business, that the browser is no longer really a browser at all - it is the - lets call it - Server Client Interface - that web standards are *not serving the best interests of consumers* and that we are quite free to do our own thing.
20 July 2004, 23:06

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