I think that I and every other internet developer should have the right to send Redmond an invoice for wasted productivity time spent working around bugs in their software.
Once again, I am going to bitch about the lousy CSS implementation in IE. Without a bit of exageration I would estimate that at least 25% of my development time is spent fixing rendering bugs that Internet Explorer produces. Some are so common that I don't spend any time at all any more (BTW that doesn't make it any better) - but every so often a new rendering problem bogs my development down.
You often hear reports in the news that say "sick days cost the economy 20 billion dollars" or "spam costs the economy 5 billion." I would be willing to guess that if a study was done - Internet Explorer bugs cost the web development industry half a billion dollars a year in lost productivity... not to mention the social impact of web developers that have been driven to drink because Internet Explorer f*^cks up all of their sites.
The IE team says they are going to do something about the problems, but I am not holding my breath.
andre (if boiling blood could be harnessed as an energy source I could light a city the size of Toronto for a month)
Posted by andre at April 18, 2005 09:58 PMThe CEO of Opera (a competing browser) challenged Microsoft to make IE7 capable of passing the "acid2" test, which is an indicator of standards compliance. From what I heard, Microsoft said that it would strive for compliance, but did not agree to take the test. Bah! Article Here
Posted by: derek at April 19, 2005 08:42 AM