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bradyj
07-20-2004, 08:25 PM
Design By fire's blog offered up this:
http://www.designbyfire.com/000087.html

Apparently, Robert Scoble saw my XHTML 1.0 Strict post. And he’s made an offer we can’t refuse.


Send him your complaints about XHTML + CSS for Internet Explorer and he will pass it to the right people at Microsoft.


This is a prime opportunity. Pass the word along. Get out your favorite Internet Explorer issues and problems with XHTML and CSS. Write them down in specific terms.

What is the problem exactly?

How does it happen, exactly, using what code?

Does the XHTML and CSS code work in Mozilla, Firefox, Opera and Safari?

Pick only three problems. Do not flood Scoble with an novel side comment. Kept it concise and clear.



Give the man details so he can give it to the right folks in Redmond. Who knows… Maybe something will change. I’m never one to pass up an opportunity.


A grass roots movement to nudge Microsoft fix Internet Explorer might be underway. Do your part.

That link sends you to this site where you can email him your complaints; keep it short, sweet, and professional people:)

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/05/02.html#a7338

Is Microsoft listening?

Design by Fire: "Robert Scoble has a web site. Use your voice. If everyone starts posting comments to his web site pointing out IE 6 errors with XHTML or CSS, and remind him day in and day out, maybe he’ll pass it up the food chain."


Yes, I pass along all feedback about Microsoft stuff.


With requests to fix something, be specific. It helps us decide among the thousands of feature requests we get. The more requests we get on something very specific, the better. If you just say 'support standards' that isn't good enough. Explain which three specific things you want us to do first. Believe it or not, but teams here can't do it all. So help us put things in a priority order. For instance, what's most important to you? Fixing a specific CSS problem, or fixing PNG image support. If you could only have one of those, which one would you want?


But, repeating yourself won't help. I read every comment. Many of the IE team reads me regularly too. But, post away, I'll forward.

allida77
07-20-2004, 08:32 PM
I am really not sure what you can say that already has not, but hey whatever makes you sleep better at night.

gsnedders
07-20-2004, 08:41 PM
but hey whatever makes you sleep better at night.

True...


Great link brady... left my comment immediately...

Grant Palin
07-20-2004, 09:48 PM
That's a great page, letting developers tell the IE team what they want fixed.

Looks like they've already mentioned all of the problems (that I'm aware of) that need fixing...hopefully, if it makes an impact, the IE team will actually help us all and just fix the darn thing.

Just for the record...
They've all been mentioned already, but the items that I personally want are:

Allow use of the :hover pseudoclass on elements besides <a...>
Fix the appearance of the CSS dotted border (appears like big round bullets even if set at 1px!)
Fix the appearance of vertical dashed borders when scrolling (vertical dashed borders become solid when scrolling)
Allow resizing of text set in pixels...this would save a LOT of trouble when sizing you text!

bradyj
07-20-2004, 10:31 PM
I agree that they should know these already, and I think they do -- I feel they're trying to appease us more than anything -- just doing a search for CSS and Internet Explorer yeilds a wealth of problems with the browser. But, it couldn't hurt... Netscape was once like them, and look how far they've grown.

littledeb92001
01-08-2010, 12:31 AM
I am really disappointed with Internet Explorer. It is so slow I can't stand it. I too had to switch to Firefox because of this. I'm sure IE is aware of the problem.

It's really ridiculous!

drhowarddrfine
01-08-2010, 02:32 AM
You responded to a 6 year old post but all of the complaints from way back then still apply today. Interesting.