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Just as soon as the web is more standards compliant than not.

HTML was always a poor standard. Poorly defined, poorly policed, poorly enhanced.

Much of the content created today was *shock horror* not created by Microsoft, but was created by *human beings* (rembmer them?) using rudimentary tools ... usually their own hands and a text editor.

ONLY THEN was XHMTL developed in order to plug the many holes in HTML's spoec.

As such, most websites are not yet standards compliant as they contain much content (mis)created prior to XHTML.

Therefore, Microsoft and most other browsers do a HUGE amount of work to be as flexible as possible, trying to render the page as best it can even in the face of some quite horrible (X)HTML source errors.

That MS are now tightening up standards support is a great thing, but you cannot expect them to just throw their toys out of the pram whenever an incorrect HTML element is found. That'd do nobody any good.
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Well, everything MS does is carefully calculated to make you think they are  DonnieBoy | 08/29/08
What the heck happen to the DonnieBoy we knew and loved???  joethemacfan | 08/29/08
Web 2.0 mess  croberts | 08/29/08
What does Web 2.0 have to do with this?  storm14k | 08/29/08
Thank you. MS will not get its arse in gear though, as long as web  DonnieBoy | 08/29/08
Um.. Kidnapped by Microsofties and brainwashed?  Wolfie2K3 | 09/02/08
MS is goint to receive flack for not having compatibility mode on ...  P. Douglas | 08/29/08
Forget it...  eMJayy | 09/01/08
Who are you ...  P. Douglas | 09/01/08
Someone will complain!!!  swattz101 | 08/29/08
RE: Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism  ZDNET_guest666 | 08/29/08
Indeed...  eMJayy | 09/01/08
Microsoft is finally doing the right thing with IE  willgillen | 08/29/08
I use Opera  laura.b | 08/29/08
Me too...  Scrat | 08/30/08
Get over it...  eMJayy | 09/01/08
I think you're right  tech_walker | 09/02/08
RE: Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism  rizarsurf | 08/29/08
Sure  de-void | 08/29/08
Web Designers testing IE by default are ignorant anyway...  JAB Creations | 08/29/08
AMEN!!! (nt)  storm14k | 08/29/08
Is it incompetent to shoot for the majority?  eb276 | 08/29/08
It depends...  zkiwi | 08/30/08
Hey, OSS advocates are geniuses. Don't you know that?  transposeIT | 09/01/08
RE: Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism  P. Douglas | 08/29/08
Agreed, as I blogged earlier today.  threedaysdwn | 08/29/08
Jeeeezz try hard Opera  JoeMama_z | 08/29/08
Yes, Opera looking pretty whiny  quux | 08/29/08
RE: Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism  eric812@... | 08/29/08
"Microsoft originally broke standards compatibility with IE" ? Not quite  PB_z | 08/29/08
Missing the point of Opera's criticism  nstuff | 08/30/08
Ok... So what you're really saying here...  Wolfie2K3 | 09/02/08
Opera has a point  Rambo Tribble | 08/30/08
The new beta doesn't work well in any mode  tech_walker | 09/02/08
No they don't.. And that's nothing but FUD...  Wolfie2K3 | 09/02/08
Flimsy straws  orcmid | 08/30/08
Uh, I meant insensitivity  orcmid | 08/30/08
Bring it on!  David Blomstrom | 08/31/08
I hope thery sue you  tonymcs@... | 08/31/08
ROTFLMAO!!!  David Blomstrom | 09/01/08
Let's see...  Confused by religion | 09/01/08
Huh?  David Blomstrom | 09/01/08
RE: Yawn  vikingnyc@... | 09/01/08
Why have modes what people besides MS hates standards?  Randalllind | 09/01/08
Microsoft lackey  ejmfoley@... | 09/01/08
Opera should shut up and build a better browser  tech_walker | 09/01/08
Problem is, we've started with a Lie  Boot_Agnostic | 09/02/08
RE: Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism  michael@... | 09/02/08
weak, but not baseless  Mitch 74 | 09/02/08
RE: Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism  nstuff | 09/02/08
RE: Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism  ddrmueller | 09/03/08
RE: Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism  Devonmcnulty@... | 09/05/08
Mary Jo Foley Grasps at Straws with Criticism of Sanity  yawnnn | 10/04/08

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