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Joel Spolsky just wrote a 25-page-long article about IE8, Web Standards and the general quantum mechanics surrounding the subject. And I’m left wondering, who cares about IE8? Who cares about IE7, for the matter?

I see a trend where web developers are doing their best to make sure a website works on IE6, but most of code and design are generally targeted at Firefox, Opera and Safari. It might just be that the IE8 team is trying to do the right thing now. But you know what, it’s too fucking late. We do not care about your Windows-only, closed-source web browser anymore.

Most web developers today choose to blissfully hope that whoever’s using IE6 today will gracefully switch over to either Firefox, Opera or Safari in the future. And that’s definitely what seems to be happening. More and more people are moving on to Linux and OSX. And let’s just be honest to each other, Vista has so far failed, badly. Everyone who I know that has touched it can vouch for its sheer crappiness.

I honestly don’t know why Joel Spolsky is writing about this subject at all, maybe it’s because Microsoft has conquered a permanent status of relevance to him, but not for me anymore. Not to a lot of people I know. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe we’re still forced to deal with all this crap over and over again. But for the time being, I’m just not gonna let Microsoft interfere once again with the way I build software.

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