"The web is constantly evolving. New and innovative websites are being created every day, pushing the boundaries of HTML in every direction. HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics."
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Member since:2007-07-14
As a software developer myself, I can tell you that if you haven't hacked on something for a while, even a few months, it takes quite a bit of time just to get back up to speed on what the code does and how it all fits together. When I imagine for the amount of time IE6 sat essentially gathering dust and the complexity of such a project, I can well imagine many of the programmers working on it are only vaguely aware of how it works even a year later.
Member since:2005-07-05
But it isn't like Microsoft developers had to pull IE's compliance with internet standards out of their ear, or even our of old code. The standards are well documented. All they had to do was implement them.
I used to work at Microsoft and I don't think their decisions have much to do with developer ability.
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2005-07-05
I can't fathom how Microsoft can put so much time and effort into IE 7 and still get so many things wrong. It's much better than IE 6, which as a web developer, I finally just quit supporting because the level of suck was just too great, but still...
I look forward with great excitement to things like HTML5 and CSS3, but somehow I think the majority (read IE users) of the web won't benefit from them for a long, long, long, long time.