Comments on: internet explorer team chat

By: twenty4.org

twenty4.org — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:08:07 +0000

Zeldman to help with IE7?

According to a recent Internet Explorer Team chat found over at aebrahim’s blog, it seems Jeffrey Zeldman, other standards evangelists and big name developers could possibly find themselves working with Microsoft on future versions of IE.

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By: dotfloofy dotblog

dotfloofy dotblog — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:23:11 +0000

And Now: Ba-dump

The IE team steps out of their cave and into the glaring sunlight.

By: JonGalloway.ToString()

JonGalloway.ToString() — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 04:07:58 +0000

RE: Why is IE going down so much?

By: Hacking for Christ

Hacking for Christ — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 03:51:21 +0000

Chat with the IE Team

aebrahim has a blog post containing an IRC log of a chat with the IE development team, which they hope to be the first of many. A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable for any Microsoft development team…

By: sdkaneda

sdkaneda — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 03:24:54 +0000

I was there too, and I mirror your sentiment. Sounds to me like they’re too busy on damage control to touch upon any form of innovation before Longhorn.

The talk about maintaining “backwards compatibility” and not wanting to “break the web” as opposed to developing a standards-strict rendering model seemed to excite the tinfoil-hat gang… Seems to me like the sunniest assumption I could make is that they’re just choking on their own popularity and that their millions of customers demand and will accept nothing but a broken browser.

Let’s hope for the best. I’d be pleasantly surprised if the next IE rollout had any treats at all for the standards-savvy designer or developer.