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200801 Apr
Posted in Browsers
The Internet Explorer team announced on their blog today that they are unhappy with the slow progress and differing implementations of the various CSS3 modules, and will not be including any CSS3 functionality in IE8; instead they will be producing their own, alternative standard, which they are codenaming CSS.2012 (after the planned year of launch of the subsequent browser).
Few details have yet been released as to what the new standard will contain, although one new feature which was hinted at was the
:silverlightselector, which will be used to replace text in selected elements with high-definition streaming video.It is unlikely that CSS.2012 will be compatible with existing CSS standards, and MS intend to use their dominant market share to automatically push the new version onto desktops; with training being provided only by Microsoft-certificated teachers, this could end up being very expensive for web developers forced to re-train.
IE Platform Architect, Chris Wilson, said:
Other browsers and standards break the web, so CSS.2012 is our best effort at fixing it. It will be tightly integrated into .NET and Silverlight, and initially will only work in IE9. Other browsers will be able to license the technology after a few years, when we judge it is stable. Then they can’t break the web.
More information on the announcement here.
Update: It’s just after noon here in the UK, so time for me to confess: yes, this is an April Fool’s Day hoax; of course, Microsoft would never pull a stunt like this. Hope you all enjoyed the prank, and I’m happy I caught a few of you out!
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[…] IE9 to include alternative ‘CSS.2012′ standard […]
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Amazing, this page came up 2nd in Google results for just “ie9″….. Scared the hell out of me, and it’s almost as far from April as you can get right now.
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lol, hadn’t even realised! it’s a very old post :)
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shit man, even if this is an old post this is so not funny ;)
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Yes, It was really scarry!!! Seeking for IE9 and found such a $#@$#@% !!! (sorry) :)
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George says:Comment » February 14th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Internet Explorer has never been a good browser, and now
when we have Firefox (ok and others – Chrome, Safari and so on…), I don’t think they can win the poor web developers trust EVER AGAIN. To much pain and suffering around IE6 which is still alive, hopefully not for long.. -
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Toby Worth says:Comment » February 16th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
You’re a Grade-A, chemically-pure cock-monkey.
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That is HILARIOUS.
You know what “breaks” the web? Microsoft’s non-standards-compliant browsers. The infamous IE6 is the best example that all web developers love to bash, and then IE7 — while better — still caused lots of problems. IE8 has caught up.
And here’s a Microsoft IE guy saying that “other” browsers (which were and ARE more standards-compliant) are breaking the web. What gall.
But wait there’s more. Not only that, but “they” will “fix” the web by introducing ANOTHER proprietary standard, and one that other browsers can’t even license for several YEARS until microsoft feels it’s “stable enough” and “ready”. Not only that but they will once again use their market share to create this proprietary situation.
Well, at least it’s not all bad. After all, Web Developers can choose to code this specifically for IE9, or ignore it. That’s great. Back in the day, IE didn’t even SUPPORT the standards. So I guess it’s fine after all.
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Ah, April fools joke. NICE :) Still up there though. I’m only on alert on April 1st.
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Ha, ha, you might have gotten me with this ( I was thinking this must be an old post – before macroslop repented ) but I have just been testing IE9 CSS3 HTML5 http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
Nice try though. Good one!
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inernate explorare 9 very good . he help fast downlanding
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Liam says:Comment » July 19th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Wow, 2 years on and this is the second page in Google for IE9, gave me a scare for a second…
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