[thelist] IE6 "compatible mode" / PNG support

Abhay S. Kushwaha abhay at kushwaha.com
Sat Mar 3 01:03:40 CST 2001


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Their thinking goes thus:

  IE does not have a revenue model. So, all the development work is
  done to please the general single-digit IQ possessing fat user.
  The idea is to capture the market with our browser. Once we have
  that, we can sell software that integrates well with the browser
  and churns out stuff best supported by only our browser.

  PNG? Does an 'average' user know what it is? Is it being used by
  more sites than... umm... 1% ? Why the heck do we put that in?
  The core development team is still worrying about that CSS problem
  that is more immediate. We support basic PNG, right? Nobody's gonna
  miss proper support till version 7.

  The rest of the team? Well, from the 'average' user's point of
  view, we gotta add more bars, more shortcuts, more bells n'
  whistles -- stuff that we guys usually turn off but the 'average'
  user doesn't. We gotta give him the 'glitz' dudes!

  "Look man! My new browser's toolbar has 3D images!"

:-S

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[abhay]

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- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Baker, Nick" <BakerN at mso.umt.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 12:06 AM


> I think they *understand*.
> But if it doesn't make them $$$ I think it is low on their list.
> ...
> > I really hope Microsoft understands the importance of full
> > native PNG support before the release of the final version
> > of IE6. Anything else would be plain idiocy.

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