why is IE supported?

[sidki3003]

(Jan. 16, 2009 10:31 PM)ProxRocks Wrote:  "why do you use such-and-such?"
"i don't know, i was told it was 'compliant'..."
"what's that mean, it renders magenta instead of fuchsia or cerise?"
"have no clue, but hey, i'm 'compliant' and that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling..."

Come on!

During NN4 days there was one smart guy, Brendan Eich (now still very active at mozilla.org). He invented JavaScript. Then MS knocked down Netscape and gained 95% of the browser market. Then they had the arrogance to rename someone else's work to JScript and added proprietary extensions.

Standard compliance is: Regarding "JScript", sticking to Eich et altera ECMA Script RFCs (currently ECMA v2). Regarding CSS, sticking to the World Wide Web Consortium RFCs (currently CSS3).