{"id":414,"date":"2007-12-02T14:29:55","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T20:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/02\/a-burningbird-stake-in-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T20:29:55","slug":"a-burningbird-stake-in-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/02\/a-burningbird-stake-in-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"A Burning(bird) Stake In The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been following <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shelley_Powers\">Shelley Powers'<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/burningbird.net\/\">blog<\/a> for about half a year now, ever since I discovered her on some feed searches for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\/\" title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/burningbird.net\/technology\/lessons-from-the-book-final-thoughts\/\">Today<\/a> she posts some post-mortem thoughts on her latest book about Web Graphics.  In addition, she makes a bold statement: \"I will no longer compensate for limited or broken specification support in browsers after January 1, 2010\"  <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\"><object type=\"text\/html\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/gads.php\"><\/object><\/div>\n<p>While I admire her boldness, I can't go that far, because there will always be limited or broken standard support out there, regardless of the browser or company.  Especially big specs like SVG.  However, I think a reasonable statement for me would be: By 2010, I will only code to useful subsets of open specifications that have been implemented by the majority of the \"big\" browsers out there - <em>regardless of market share<\/em>.  The other browser users might just see completely broken web pages. The reason I ignore market share is because I believe Internet Explorer's current market share is now due <em>only<\/em> to inertia and the fact that it's deployed automatically on the majority of desktops out there.  I don't like this because it gives Microsoft the position of being able to heavily influence the progress (or lack of progress) of open web technologies in favor of its own.  They should get an equal vote, but not one based on market share.<\/p>\n<p>To me, it's all about IE8 - if Microsoft pulls a golden rabbit out of its hat and IE8 supports the majority of CSS 2.1, XHTML and some portion of SVG, CSS3, HTML5, then I might be mollified\/hopeful.  If not, then Microsoft has made their choice and I may just have to give up on them like Shelley.  We've heard words to the effect that Microsoft is working on a completely new layout engine.  And the fact that the IEBlog has been deliberately quiet on IE8 news has actually made me <em>hopeful<\/em> that they're planning a big surprise to win back developers to its side (otherwise it seems like they'd try to warn us not to expect much of IE8).  But then again, I won't be surprised if IE8 contains only minimal improvements again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\"><object type=\"text\/html\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/gads.php\"><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following Shelley Powers&#8217; blog for about half a year now, ever since I discovered her on some feed searches for SVG. Today she posts some post-mortem thoughts on her latest book about Web Graphics. 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