It’s almost an oxymoron. Here are my two cents on the fact that IE has finally adopted web standards. Yes, it’s great. Finally they started paying attention and took the time and effort to create a browser that works like it should. Honestly though, they should have been the ones ahead of the curve and pushing other browser vendors to up their game.
It’s taken almost 10 years to catch them up to the state that they should have been at in 1997. But I’ll look past that and hope that now that they’ve been able to bring their browser up to par, they can finally give some input along with other vendors, developers, and designers and help push forward in areas that need some major help.
I’m thinking CSS 3 here. Is this finally a sign that we might be able to get the next version in just a couple years? With IE’s major overhaul in a single upgrade and support for code that should have worked 10 years ago, maybe they’ll start to tackle CSS? Oh I can only dream.
I'm Brad Cooper, a user experience designer and front-end programmer with a passion for actualizing visions. I strive to create a piece of art in each site that I put together both visually and technically.
