Zeldman to help with IE7?
According to a recent Internet Explorer Team chat found over at aebrahim’s blog, it seems Jeffrey Zeldman, other standards evangelists and big name developers could possibly find themselves working alongside Microsoft on future versions of IE.
Tabbed browsing is also mentioned as a possible feature in a future release of IE and additional accessibility features are mentioned. Unfortunately, talk of not wanting to “break” things by adding a better standards support is dis-heartening… so I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the next version of IE has in store for the web-developer.
Posted on July 10th, 2004 at 2:07 pm and filed under Accessibility, Software, Web, Web Standards.
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Randy Peterman July 10th, 2004 at 9:42 pm (Permalink)
I’ve written this before, but I’ll write it again here: Every new version of every browser ‘breaks things.’ It also fixes others, web developers are used to this: if IE7 could correctly handle the CSS code then hacks to hide CSS from IE 6 and less would not effect things and things would not be broken. Doctype switching helps with this already. I’m not certain what they’re worried about.
Chris July 10th, 2004 at 10:04 pm (Permalink)
Personally, I’d rather they did break a couple of things as long as they fix the way in which IE tends to render certain CSS.
And as you so rightly said, the hacks that are there to hide things from IE wouldn’t really be affected anyway.
If Microsoft don’t improve the browser now, because of fears that they’ll break something when trying to fix things, then it’s only going to get worse by the time IE8 is released.
Andy Mac July 14th, 2004 at 11:55 am (Permalink)
I’d imagine one of Microsoft’s big concerns about breaking IE would be the large corporations who have spent vast sums of time and money devloping intranets with IE’s proprietary markup. They, after all, carry much more weight than the web design community.
Chris July 18th, 2004 at 1:53 am (Permalink)
Most definitely Andy.
At the end of the day however, large corporations with proprietary intranets are probably outnumbered by web developers and sites created by web developers.
Just my $0.02