The Agony of Incompliance

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After several hours of work crafting a stylesheet, I remember again. Oh, yeah, I recall, that’s right. Microsoft Internet Explorer does not support style inheritance properly. You can style a tag, you can style a class, and you can even style a tag with a class. But don’t even think of trying to style a tag that is the child of another tag styled with a class. That is evidently too much mental tree-climbing for those silly MicroSmurfs to think about. If you, too, are experiencing braincramps thinking about how complicated div.fooClass>p is, congratulations: You have the Hack Quotient of a MicroSmurf.

If only the Department of Justice worked more effectively and efficiently. Instead of convicting the Redmond behemoth five years too late and then apparently deciding that conviction did not warrant action, today perhaps we would have a thriving browser market.

If only Netscape had Usability Engineers who were not braindead. Instead of a bloated monstrosity that has failed to draw a significant user base, today perhaps we would have a thriving browser market.

Instead, I have to write style rules that take into account Microsoft’s intentional disregard of web standards, because they have 95-99% of the market share, depending on whose count you read. And, if you think that any version of Internet Explorer is standards-compliant, you ought to share the dope you’re smokin’. Because I need some now.

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