IE 7.0 not much better?

When you get a chance, I highly recommend reading this article…

The most critical point in Wilson’s post, in my mind, is Microsoft’s admission that it will fail the crucial Acid2 browser-compliance test , which the Web Standards Project (WaSP) designed to help browser vendors ensure that their products properly support Web standards. Microsoft apparently disagrees. “Acid2 … is pointedly not a compliance check,” Wilson noted, contradicting the description on the Acid2 Web site. “As a wish list, [Acid2] is really important and useful to my team, but it isn’t even intended, in my understanding, as our priority list for IE 7.0.” Meanwhile, other browser teams have made significant efforts to comply with Acid2.

This is just annoying. Further on it is stated that making IE 7.0 100% compliant will break at least half of the e-commerce sites online now.

I say that’s not M$’s problem. That is the fault of developers that do not bother to test their work in browsers other than IE.

My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It’s a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn’t secure and isn’t standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators. Because of their user bases, however, Web developers are hamstrung into developing for IE at the expense of established standards that work well in all other browsers. You can turn the tide by demanding more from Microsoft and by using a better alternative Web browser. I recommend and use Mozilla Firefox, but Apple Safari (Macintosh only) and Opera 8 are both worth considering as well.

Amen.

Here are some screen shots for you to show just how bad this is. First, IE 6 on Windows XP click either for a full screen view. The reference rendering:

Now, FireFox:

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