You're missing the point (I hate to break it to you). The F500 and Microsoft can do as they please, but stop expecting the web dev community to take seriously this claim that they need to standardise on version X of a browser. We don't care anymore.
Who is "we" here? Am I talking to the official spokesperson for all non-enterprise web devs? Last time I checked Facebook, Google, CNN, NYTimes, and Twitter all worked with IE.
When webpages that people actually care about break in IE then I'll believe you. Until then, I think people will go where the money is. Now maybe you won't support IE. That's your choice, but I suspect you're not the director for webdev at Facebook.
In fact, if you let me know what your sites are, I can add them to my blacklist to avoid us both the trouble of your sites showing up in my Google search since they may take down my browser at any point in the future.
> Am I talking to the official spokesperson for all non-enterprise web devs?
No. Is there a reason why you would ask such a ridiculous question?
> Last time I checked Facebook, Google, CNN, NYTimes, and Twitter all worked with IE.
Again, that doesn't affect my point which is: that the compatibility restrictions are arbitrary, unnecessary and completely unworthy of sympathy from the community.
> let me know what your sites are, I can add them to my blacklist
Then you won't be getting many contracts from large organisations, and people who work at large organisations won't be using anything public that you develop on their lunch break. If that doesn't matter to you, that's OK, to each his own. But it does matter to a very large group of people in the web development community who make their living building professional sites for professional clients.
> Then you won't be getting many contracts from large organisations
I would appreciate it if you and the other guy would stop making this personal, but I'm not expecting much.
Nowhere did I talk about development practices. What I talked about was the justification often held out to web developers that such-and-such state of affairs is absolutely and perpetually necessary. My professional conduct has nothing to do with that, thank you very much.
I'm not sure what you're reading into my posts that you consider "making this personal", nor which person or people you think I'm going after, but I promise you've misunderstood my meaning if that's the impression you've got.
