"The current beta build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, released to developers at WWDC '07, is not as polished as what people have come to expect of Apple's design team - users are still left with at best several disagreeable changes, and at worst a hideous hodgepodge of HIG contradictions. I have broken down 5 onscreen blunders that detract from the user experience and make Leopard the ugliest and most uncharacteristically 'Apple' OS to date." Thanks to MacWereld for pointing this article out.
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Yeah, and I'm telling you that even at that time "relatively" was stretching it quite a bit. IE6 has never adhered to standards. What you are saying is that it had a semblance of standards compliance, and I'm stating that this is not true at all. That the only reason people never noticed before is because IE4 and 5 had already trained developers to workaround the problems instead of demanding actual compliancy. People seem to have short memories, no one remembers all those sites with the must have IE5 or later warnings before you could enter the page because they truly wouldn't work on anything else. This is less so today because most browsers actually try to adhere to standards and not have the devs work around the browser.
An example, citibank's site warns you that it only works on specific browsers on specific OS's, yet I go to the site in linux with no issues at all. Why, because the site was built with standards in mind. The same couldn't be said about their site just a couple of years ago, when IE6 was the only game in town.
Edited 2007-07-11 16:49
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2007-02-17
I strongly disagree with this. IE6 did not adhere to standards well, and instead rode the coat tails of its predecessors popularity and prevalence. Basically, web developers had already gotten used to the quirks of IE and the it's non-standard way of working that long implemented hacks still worked with IE as they did before. IE7 doesn't even adhere to standards all that well, what makes you think IE6 did. IE6 was a horror for any web developer. In terms of the gui, it was better than the previous versions, but that's not saying much.