Microsoft ad campaign

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Jun 18 17:21:26 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:55:52AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> What I find surprising is the outright boast that it is possible to make
> pages that will display only in IE8 that _can't_ display in anything else.
> 
> Isn't IE8 supposed to be the most standards-compliant version of
> Explorer ever?
> 
> This has the potential to hurt MS's claims of wanting greater
> interoperability -- as they appear to take pride in the ability to be
> incompatible with anything else.

Being standards compliant does not prevent supporting things beyond
any standard.  Browsers have done that all the time.

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