Gee thanks Microsoft

[thunderlizard]

Why they have to decide to conform to standard now I have no idea.

Joel Spolsky has a great explanation of the subject (which doesn't ultimately come to a conclusion)
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html

 

[MPwannadecentincome]

I get problems even in compatibility mode with IE8 on this site with the reply input box I am typing in now does not even align with the rest of the page!

Not sure how to put an image up - much easier to explain with a screen shot.

 

[xoggoth]

At least the updates would have been fairly easy if not for the serial number check not working since I switched website from PHP4 to PHP5 yesterday to start to fix the Worldpay callback not working properly due to them becoming RBS Worldpay the other week and some bastards hacking my mailer! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

We often have this standards argument here. It would be nice, this took ages to get working in IE and Firefox, basically it is two completely different lots of code.

Often wish that others would follow Microsoft's jscript and not the other way round, many of the things MS do are a lot more sensible. For example, automatically expanding height of an element to accomodate the contained text and having jscript that provides that actual height, providing numeric versions of size/position without having to strip off/add px. And why don't Firefox etc have decent filters?

 

[Ardesco]

Often wish that others would follow Microsoft's jscript and not the other way round, many of the things MS do are a lot more sensible.

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BURN IM!!!

Sorry but I have to say that the MS JavaScript engine is one thing I really wish they would strip out and throw away. It mind numbingly slow and on complex pages with lots of data pretty much kills the browsing experience.

Slightly OT, but we could really do with an angry mob smiley with pitch forks and flaming torches!!!

 

[TheRefactornator]

We often have this standards argument here. It would be nice, this took ages to get working in IE and Firefox, basically it is two completely different lots of code.

Hmm yes. Not quite right on IE8 but fine on FF 3.0.10. Please make your cheque payable to cash.

 

[xoggoth]

Probably we are looking at different things. Webpages, as in actually on the internet, not my main concern, rather complex interactives that run in a browser object within .net progs. IE constructs make life much easier for that.