Explaining Web Standards 2008 Professional Edition
January 25th, 2008
A client asked me the other day what web standards were and why I seemed to hate Internet Explorer so much.
My response was thusly given:
Sphere: Related ContentWeb standards are an agreed upon set of rules. Like, we all agree that a square is a square and a circle is a circle.
Microsoft, on the other hand, tells us that we, the entire internet development community, do not know what the hell we’re talking about. A square is clearly NOT a square (not to be confused with a squircle). It is, instead, roughly defined a polygonally rendered object oriented box-like ActiveWidget that may or may not have four equal sides (except when rendered in quirks mode). For our own damn good they’ve unilaterally embraced and extended the standard (now called ActiveCube 2008 Professional Edition) to include a fifth side on certain occasions.
And at the end of the day, they’re still not going to draw the damn box on the screen, so we can all go fuck ourselves.
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