MS Product (read-Marketing) Group responds to Reddits questions to IE9

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dk3s0/the_ie9_team_responds_to_your_questions/

by SilianRail • 16 years ago

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byoung22• 16 years ago

Developers should be able to write their code once and it should work consistently in any browser.

So why is it that developers can write code that works on FireFox, Chrome, and Safari, but requires tweaks and hacks to work in IE?

Fundamentally, it's about a better web, not a better browser. There is so much more that can be done. That's why we build Internet Explorer

More doubletalk. If they truly believed in a better web, they would build a browser with a gecko or webkit engine so developers could be assured that their sites would work without spending time on hacks. If developers could have all the time they spent on cross-browser compatibility back, they could spend more time building a better web.

SilianRail• 16 years ago

I for one am VERY disappointed in MS on this. The corporate/marketing jargon in their responses is what will lead them to fail.

Honest question: Is this an age thing? After reading some of the "witty" things they tried to say it sounded like my 58 year old dad trying to spew out playful banter to my friends at a bar...it just doesnt work.

byoung22• 16 years ago

After reading some of the "witty" things they tried to say it sounded like my 58 year old dad trying to spew out playful banter to my friends at a bar...it just doesnt work

Yeah there was definitely a generation gap there...I know people who work at Microsoft, and they're some of the wittiest people around. Maybe Microsoft should have let the devs actually answer the questions instead of the suits from marketing.

MS Product (read-Marketing) Group responds to Reddits questions to IE9

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