Microsoft tears the Web

Summary: Complaints about Microsoft's intervention in decisions about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

THE POST recently filed under "WTF" says that Microsoft continues to break standards. To quote: "Right now the W3C is discussing CSS shader standardization on their mailing lists. Microsoft has voiced their opinion and things are about to get very strange indeed.

"A quick explanation of what CSS shaders are. They are intended to make it possible to define a shading effect in CSS in a shading language."

Microsoft has been a major foe of CSS if one considers what IE6 did (or didn't do) to the Web. It had a huge toll and it affected millions who designed for the Web.

The W3C should not have allowed Microsoft in [1, 2, 3, 4]. Microsoft treats CSS like Closed Source Software, not Cascading Style Sheets. Microsoft 'extends' CSS only when it tries to subvert or control (own) it. ⬆

"In one piece of mail people were suggesting that Office had to work equally well with all browsers and that we shouldn’t force Office users to use our browser. This Is wrong and I wanted to correct this."

--Bill Gates [PDF]