Linked by Adam S on Wed 5th Apr 2006 12:52 UTC, submitted by estherschindler
DevSource's John Mueller has an excellent "first look" at what it will take for Web developers to make their apps work with IE7. He says, "Unless you're using pretty much pure HTML on static pages, your application is going to break in some way."
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This article is really good if you have been developing for Windows and IE 6.0 and 5.5 users exclusively for the past few years. It's clear that, despite the noise-making of Zeldman, Meyer, and their ilk, many professional developers are still doing this for one reason or another.
While the article is helpful, it's length and complexity are also indicative of the problems associated with developing web applications by the IE/Microsoft book and not by the book of the w3c. The author cites some examples in which non-w3c attributes have been removed, and explains that exceptions made for the IE6 browser have to be re-examined and perhaps new exceptions must be made for IE7.
It's unintentionally a very compelling argument for the strict adoption of standards.