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December 13, 2007

Opera Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft »

In an open letter to the web community, Håkon Wium Lie, CTO of Opera writes:

We believe that Microsoft has harmed Web standards by refusing to support them; Microsoft often participates in creating Web standards, promoting them, and even promising to implement them. Despite their talent, however, they refuse to support Web standards correctly. For example, Internet Explorer is the only modern Web browser that does not support Acid2.

In a presentation I gave recently, I had a section on the multiple browsers we have to develop for and how Internet Explorer continues to be the most problematic. I think we (as designers and tech geeks) get wrapped up in what we know so much, we forget that the general public has no concept of Web Standards and what they mean.

The biggest point of that conversation that hit home with my audience—those paying the bills for the websites, not those designing them—was that developing for Internet Explorer increases the development cost of your website. And that hit home.

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