- From: Chris Wilson <cwilso@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:03:21 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
Jeffrey Yasskin [mailto:jyasskin@appcomp.com] wrote: >I do not believe Microsoft when they say that their "bugs" were accidental. >They were a conscious effort to win market share. And it's going to work >too. As a web surfer, I'd rather use a browser that doesn't blow up when an >author forgets a </td> or mistypes a ':'. When I said our CSS FCR bugs were accidental, I spoke from authority; I personally wrote the entire CSS parser used in IE3.0 and IE4.0. Saying you don't believe failing forward compatibility rules is calling me personally a liar. If you intend to do this, then that's fine - working for Microsoft and championing standards has given me a very thick skin, if nothing else - but understand the consequence, and expect that I will afford you the same [lack of] courtesy. As for other "bugs", that depends on how you define "bugs" - the aforementioned "tables resetting font properties" issue was certainly a conscious decision, since we were trying to be compatible with the defacto standard. Many bugs were just that, however - bugs. -Chris Wilson
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