Dynamic Flash

I started to write a long post about why Microsoft’s proposal to fix web standards with a proprietary meta tag / header is both utterly futile and offensive to developers that care about web standards. Mike Davies, a fellow Yahoo! and one of the best guys you could hope to meet, has said everything I wanted to say – much more eloquently than I tend to be when ranting, I might add – in his End of line Internet Explorer article.

The biggest barrier to Microsoft adopting web standards is Microsoft’s own clients, or rather Microsoft’s promise to them of backwards compatibility. They have a plan to solve this, but it demands that web developers sacrifice the future compatibility of their sites.

Having spent most of the evening reading various blog posts on this debacle, it’s interesting to see how Microsoft have managed to divide the opinions of leading members the web standards community so fiercely. I wonder who might benefit from such a situation?

Read Mike’s article in full