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RE[7]: Comment by handy
by lemur2 on Thu 28th Feb 2008 05:47 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Comment by handy"
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Er, are you talking specifically about SVG or all the W3C standards in the link posted by lemur? I doubt any browser fully supports ALL of those standards in their latest stable version. The point of the story being, why can you pick out a standard IE doesn't support (X) and cry wolf then ignore that other browsers don't support Y and/or Z? If current browsers DO support all of those, can you provide a source to back that claim up?

I think more to the point is that (apart from text-only browsers such as lynx) IE is by far the browser that supports the least of the W3C standards.

IE tends to "support" its own non-standards, such as ActiveX, Windows bitmap, WMF and Winforms, rather than the correct device-independent standards for effectively the same functionality.

It is that sort of non-gracious anti-social ant-competitive behaviour that makes life very difficult for web developers, when by rights it should be all standard and well understood and completely browser and platform independent.

It is that sort of non-gracious anti-social ant-competitive behaviour that Microsoft has been called out for once already by the US courts (but somehow escaped any remedy for that), and is about to be called out for it once again this time by the EU.

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