{"id":973,"date":"2001-10-29T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2001-10-29T14:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=973"},"modified":"2001-10-29T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2001-10-29T14:51:26","slug":"we_are_the_stan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/29\/we_are_the_stan.html","title":{"rendered":"“We are the Standards of the World …”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Micro$oft has begrudgingly removed blocks<\/a> from non-IE browsers viewing its MSN portal. <\/p>\n

The blocks had been there because alternative browsers (such as Opera) did not “support the latest XHTML standard,” in M$’s words. Now they will allow the other browsers in, rather than blocking them and suggesting their owners download IE instead. Graciously, M$ notes, “The experience may be slightly degraded simply because they don’t support the standards we support closely, as far as the HTML standard in those browsers.” <\/p>\n

This despite MSN’s non-adherence to XHTML standards itself, of course.<\/p>\n

Also of course, ultimately, the “standard” is what everyone uses. If everyone has to use IE, then its idiosyncratic implementation of XHTML, etc., becomes the de facto <\/i>standard. You don’t think that’s what they have in mind, do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Micro$oft has begrudgingly removed blocks from non-IE browsers viewing its MSN portal. 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