[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Vast improvements between IE 3.5 & 7 ?

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I just went to Download.com in IE 7 to see if I could get weatherbug 
since I can never download it from their site (at least on campus)... 
everything just times out.

Imagine my surprise to discover that IE still requires one to specify a 
background color if one wishes a white background.   When did they 
decide that the universal color everyone would want if this declaration 
was left out was matte gray?  Is it a hold-over from the GUI in VB and 
other such visual authoring environments?

Why would ANYBODY want poor contrast gray without explicitly asking for 
it?  I can just see people going into their IE settings and changing the 
default background back to gray if IE were to change it's ways.  NOT.

I really believe that M$ refuses to conform simply because conforming 
with all the other browsers out there would seem like admitting that 
another developer's philosophy was perhaps more popular and 
functional.    Of course then I see the fact that they added tabbed 
browsing and I just get confused on the whole topic area.

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