Star Microsoft Employees Ponder the Fate of Internet Explorer
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Jan 2006 14:20 UTC
Internet Explorer "The saga of Internet Explorer, the piece of software that once brought the Department of Justice to the brink of breaking up Microsoft, continues to eat away at the company. Several Microsoft employees have been reporting on their blogs that they feel the browser is not receiving adequate attention from upper management, and that it reflects badly on Microsoft as a result."
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Sheld
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2005-12-21

OSNews might work on every browser but it uses outdated table layouts and cautiously avoids any advanced use of CSS, not to mention the ugly use of document.write here and there. So yes it works, but it's far from being optimal and not the best example of a well written site I would give (my apologies to Thom, coping with the current browser market is a fine art).

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Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

(my apologies to Thom, coping with the current browser market is a fine art).

All credit goes to Adam and Eugenia. I get scared when I need more than the img/a/u/b/i tags ;) .

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dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

There is no easy way to get advanced design elements to work in all browsers.

In that regard OSNews is doing quite fine. Outdated solution perhaps, but the only viable solution for the moment.

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AmigaRobbo Member since:
2005-11-15

RE osnews web-site, I come here to read text, ie what people have written, not to see advanced use of CSS, maybe they should go for Flash for a full feature rich way of reading the same bits of text?

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Don Grayson Member since:
2006-01-01

I come here to read text, ie what people have written, not to see advanced use of CSS

Advanced use of CSS isn't something that you are supposed to see to begin with. That's the point. While CSS can add some flash to a site, it's basic premise is to make your site viewable across any platform.

For instance, you can write a simple web page and then, by use of a CSS sheet, create a clean version of the page for printing, offer a large text version of the seeing impaired or a parred down version for RSS or Cell phones. All without actually altering your website's structural code or writing 7 different versions of the same page. CSS is good for the developer and the user.

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