Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Apr 2007 22:38 UTC
The browser wars are over, and now Microsoft, Mozilla and other vendors plan to focus on positioning the browser as a development platform. That was the consensus of a panel of representatives at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo who help develop Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and the Google Reader.
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2006-02-05
I write ASP.net with VS2k5. You can set the doctype in the ide, and if you set it to xhtml strict, everything that doesnt comply shows up as an error. It's actually a bit of a pain in the ass when it is asking for alt attributes on an image that isnt anything but a black line. These errors show up at design time in the ide (red squigglies), and in the build report. Not only that, but generated code (in my experience) consistantly validates properly.
IMHO VS.net gives Dreamweaver a run for its money as the best web IDE/WYSIWYG.
MS has said many times that it believes (like many others do) that CSS2 was a crappy standard, and that they will support the bits that make sense. IE5 was better then the competition, IE6 was a raging piece of crap compared to the competition. IE7 is equivilent to the competition in features, standards compatibility, and security. FF plugins still own, but the loading speed and memory footprint are attrocious compared to IE.
Basically, when MS has no competition, everything goes to hell. When they actually start losing significant marketshare, they shape up.