Comments on: Mozilla VP talks IE 8, Firefox 3

Mozilla's Mike Schroepfer says Microsoft's decision to support a more standards-compliant mode by default should keep Web developers from having to waste so much time.

[Leria]

If he gets that non-standards wastes time....

Why hasn't he been pushing for standards compliance in IE since DAY ONE?

[rapier1]

Because he has been

It might be useful to read the first sentence of the article again
where they clearly state that the person is a VP with *Mozilla* not
Microsoft.

[krosavcheg]

Once upon a time...

The huge player in the market was Netscape and it was Microsoft's browser that was more compliant with the standards. Too bad they didn't comprehend the importance of maintaining compliance with standards and spent all their time in adding non-standard enhancements.

[passionproductions]

right!

Right!

[AppleSuxLeo]

Once you use it you actually can't use any other browser

Who is this Mozilla jackass trying to kid. I find FF crashes as often as I.E.7 (which isn`t very often), but I.E. works on more sites. I find myself using I.E. more than FireFart.

[krosavcheg]

I pushed for using IE where I work..

because it was so much better than Netscape and yet now I spend almost all my time running Firefox.

For me, it works better than IE but if IE fits your needs better then that's good for you. Just quit being an A$$ about it and definitely don't let the other a$$es bother you.

[skrubol]

Standards

The reason you find more web pages render correctly in IE than FF is because they are written for IE, which does not comply to standards. FF does comply to the standards, so the nonstandard stuff doesn't look right in IE.
Honestly I don't know why IE would want to become standards compliant. Being the largest player, and with many webpage authors too lazy to check their pages in more than one browser, it's to their advantage to be a bit incompatible with everyone else.