25th September 2010, 2:30 PM
I just use Openoffice anyway. I can't come up with any reason to pay THAT much for word processing. I'm with you there.
However, and this is important, MS is going entirely open standards in IE9. Read the reviews. That's their goal. Whatever was the case before, that's gone. They've been slow to catch up, but this time's the big one. They support a vast amount of the current HTML5 standards. The only "legacy" really left is their active x plugin architecture. I wasn't defending IE6, I was explaining the fact that the only standards they are including are the finalized ones. Nothing you said discounts the fact that building for standards that could fluctuate or be replaced altogether at any time is a recipe for a potentially "broken" web. It would be no different than the odd design needs of IE6.
However, and this is important, MS is going entirely open standards in IE9. Read the reviews. That's their goal. Whatever was the case before, that's gone. They've been slow to catch up, but this time's the big one. They support a vast amount of the current HTML5 standards. The only "legacy" really left is their active x plugin architecture. I wasn't defending IE6, I was explaining the fact that the only standards they are including are the finalized ones. Nothing you said discounts the fact that building for standards that could fluctuate or be replaced altogether at any time is a recipe for a potentially "broken" web. It would be no different than the odd design needs of IE6.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)