After being instigated by Channel9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=34005 (And I'm W3bbo, btw)) I managed to get through to one of Microsoft's PR "interview-arrangers" people.
I was wondering if any of you have any specific questions, queries, or comments regarding the development of IE, and more specifically, IE7 which may, or may not, come with Longhorn (before... if we're lucky)
Naturally they want to develop a better product, and to better render many sites out there that already exist they will need to become more standards compliant. If I accept that as a given, then I have one major concern:
Will Microsoft put significant effort into *not* fixing the parsing bugs that CSS authors have been using to fix the current IE CSS models, unless and until they fix those models as well?
In short, will they test their new browser to make sure sites that are hacked for IE5-6 don't break in IE7 -- because either no fixes are needed or the same fixes work? And if they cannot do this 100%, will they offer and publish solutions to our real backwards-compatibility issues at least 3 months before the release of IE7?
This requires that Microsoft recognize the common practices used to fix rendering in their previous browsers, and work with those practices.
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Ben Curtis
WebSciences International
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