SuzyUK - 10:05 am on Jan 21, 2008 (gmt 0)

Opera's Complaint Update [people.opera.com]

Some people have asked: Which standards should IE have to support? Who should write the list? Fortunately, we don't need for someone to decide on a list. This is what Microsoft wrote in 1998: "Microsoft has a deep commitment to working with the W3C on HTML and CSS...We are still committed to complete implementations of the Recommendations of the W3C in this area (CSS and HTML and the DOM)." As you can see, Microsoft picked the standards themselves and there is no need for the European Commission or Opera to do so. When Microsoft promises to support a standard, we think they should use their best efforts to do so. When they don't, we think it's fair to say so.

btw.. Marcia, your comment doesn't make much sense to me - what defines "website" compliance. Surely in order to have compliance of any sort you need a set of "accepted standards". Which 'websites' should set these standards or would you be happy that MSIE should have free reign?

I know it's late but I'm always offline for most of December and am just catching up!