tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8074982418507073759.post2857706911821602214..comments2008-09-11T09:53:51.411-07:00jayWHYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05612399661521845914noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8074982418507073759.post-59847469722854420432007-05-25T11:14:00.000-07:002007-05-25T11:14:00.000-07:00Hi, I'm the author of the Web Devout resource you cited.<br /><br />I feel that Internet Explorer 7 did make as much progress in standards support as one could expect in the time they spent on it. Platform development began roughly a year before the release, and percentage-wise (at least according to my tables) they made roughly the same amount of progress that Firefox and Opera typically do in a year's time. Unfortunately, this means that Internet Explorer isn't catching up to the other browsers, but at least it suggests that they aren't falling further behind.<br /><br />In the near future, Microsoft plans to get rid of Internet Explorer's proprietary hasLayout model and replace it with the standard block formatting context model. This should help clear up a lot of the bugs and inconsistencies web developers often run into. IE.next (the current codename for the next version of Internet Explorer) will also have a new type of quirks mode system which will allow them to more easily add standards support in "standards-compliance mode" without worrying about breaking existing websites. Microsoft may not be able to pull miracles like catching up on five years of lost development time overnight, but at least there are some honest improvements to look forward to.David Hammondhttp://www.webdevout.net/noreply@blogger.com