Why a merge between Microsoft and Yahoo! could be bad for the designer community? We know how bad Internet Explorer is and we also know that Microsoft does not want to adopt many standards. Even worse, its tactics to promote IE are a little bit obscure.
Bad Company + Bad Company = Really Bad Company
Yesterday I was checking the MSN Game Zone, a MSN section that has some free online games. I was shocked when I read that MSN Games can only be played if the user has Internet Explorer. Then I thought, maybe this is not fine and maybe a merge of Microsoft and Yahoo! is not a good idea.
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What if Microsoft makes most of Yahoo! services IE-only compatible? Then, a software that does not respect standards will become more and more popular. This means more headaches for web designers and that websites will start having more bugs, with a decrease in quality, usability and user experience.
MS + Yahoo = teh Suck!
This will be a tragic day if it where to come to that. As a developer i stopped supporting IE, the extra amount of code i had to write was unreal. IE wants special CSS, special Javascript, and sometimes special PHP. I am sick of IE’s crap.