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Microsoft deserves every bit of negative feelings they get

Microsoft Internet Explorer is currently the ONLY browser not supporting any kind of advanced CANVAS technology. It sucks and if for nothing else, Microsoft deserves eternal damnation for holding back the progress of web technologies.

Keywords: Nonsense, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, IE

For example (I've just checked), IE 8 is the only browser (the rest are Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome) that cannot display this very useful chart library. Among other things that are common but MS refuses to implement are spiffy new CSS effects and embeddable fonts. The font support alone is like finally coming out of the stone age.

Not that MS is the only one in the "I won't support anything my competitors support" camp. Apple and Google don't support Theora video (which is again a FREE library and easy to integrate).

Posted on 2009-10-15T17:51 by ivoras

#1 Re: Microsoft deserves every bit of negative feelings they get

Added on 2009-10-22T20:27 by Antonios

Indeed, Microsoft Internet Explorer is much behind on css3 support. Not to mention slow. However, it has supported font embedding since version 4!

Not many people used it, however, because it was then proprietary technology (now opened and submitted to W3C recently) and it required a tool to convert the to-be-embedded font in .eot format. Check here for more info:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms530303%28VS.85%29.aspx

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