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Re: [LUG] More Proprietary Tie-ins

 

On 18/05/11 21:21, Simon Waters wrote:
> On 18/05/11 20:46, tom wrote:
>>
>>> We are still waiting on them to fix IE it has been a LONG wait. We still
>>> have bugs related to CSS 2 compliance, which is apparently "complete" in
>>> IE 8 whatever that means.
>>>
>> That means you have to upgrade to w7 to get the fixes - like buying a
>> new BMW to fixes your wobbly windscreen wipers on your reliant robin....
> 
> No when I said not fixed I meant not fixed, not even in IE9, just we'd
> hoped that CSS 2 compatibility claims for IE8 would include rendering
> things the CSS 2 way - naive but hey you can hope. ACID2 is not
> comprehensive :(
> 

I think this is the sort of thing we should use in our pro OSS argument
(rather than an anti MS argument)  but here we have an example of how
Microsoft sell us software that is buggy and buggy in being able to
render stuff that is fully open standards, so there is NO excuse for it
being unable to use



Why should i choose firefox (for example) over IE, well for a start
firefox works with standards such as css2 etc properly, where as MS keep
messing things up.

may want to tell people what open standards are too, so it makes the
above have more clarity


paul

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