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Quiz Microsoft's IE Team Leader
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Roblimo
on Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:00 PM
from the man-in-the-hot-seat dept.
from the man-in-the-hot-seat dept.
About as timely an interview as you can get: Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 last week, and today we're gathering questions for IE team general manager Dean Hachamovitch. As usual, please follow Slashdot interview rules when posting or moderating questions. We'll publish Dean's answers verbatim as soon as he replies.
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We got lots and lots of questions for Dean Hachamovitch, whose formal title is "general manager Internet Explorer at Microsoft Corp." Picking a mere 10 of those questions was not easy, and I wish Dean could have answered twice as many -- and so does he, but his schedule has been tight this week. Anyway, here are his answers to the Chosen Ten.
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How about this... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:How about this... (Score:5, Interesting)
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CSS (Score:5, Interesting)
Pointless question. (Score:5, Insightful)
I believe that NO browser fully supports CSS. Am I wrong in this assumption? Even if you're asking them to support the standards to the same level as all other browsers the implementation would still be incomplete.
There's a built-in derogatory slant to your question. I believe that IE supports more than 50% of CSS standards, which would mean they went further than half-way. Your choice of words is subtly antagonistic.
It's not a "Have you quit beating your wife" question, but neither is it a suitable one for a serious discussion.
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Evil Plan? (Score:5, Interesting)
Is this purposeful? If not, what is the reason?
IE's design goals (Score:5, Interesting)
Is it your goal to render a standards compliant website correctly in all cases, or are you just aiming to implement those parts of the spec that are used by the majority of your customers? Naturally, I can understand prioritizing the things that are hitting your customers above those that are rarely used in the real world, but part of the reason the some of them aren't used in the real world is down to lack of browser support. I find it incredibly frustrating that some of my site layouts have to be butchered just to get them to work in the commonly used browsers. If IE fails to render a compliant page according to the spec, can you commit to actively tracking it as a bug with a view to fixing it in a future release of IE, even if it only affects a handful of people?
Re:IE's design goals (Score:5, Funny)
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A question (Score:5, Interesting)
Prediction: (Score:5, Funny)
Interface (Score:5, Interesting)
Standardized Compliance Tests (Score:5, Interesting)
Best/Future Features (Score:5, Interesting)
My Question (Score:5, Interesting)
Presumably, throughout this development process for IE7, your team has had their nose to the grind-wheel, so to speak. What sort of things did you do to chill out and relax? Were there any in-office perks, like pool tables or whatnot? And were you actually all in the same office, or did some members of the team have to telecommute from far-off lands, like Oregon?
IE7 release time (Score:5, Interesting)
DOM 2 Events (Score:5, Interesting)
As someone who's been forced into using runtime patches (example [lachy.id.au]) to increase IE's compatibility with DHTML code, I feel compelled to ask: Why has the IE team ignored this critical standard?
Doing WebSite development. (Score:5, Insightful)
Simple questions (Score:5, Interesting)
IE has a dominating command of the market, although Firefox is slowly making inroads, due to innovations such as tabbed browsing that IE has had to incorporate to maintain that command. But where are the IE innovations? Why can't the IE team get ahead of the curve on Firefox? Is there anything you consider an innovation that is unique to IE that would plausibly be something the browser market would have to incorporate to stay competitive?
Why ditch platform conventions (Score:5, Interesting)
There is a workaround [enhanceie.com] that involves editing the registry to get the menu bar in the correct place but why is this not implemented as part of toolbar customisation?
Microsoft jisallim aklak (Score:5, Interesting)
IE7 + Win2k (Score:5, Interesting)
It's not like it'd be any less secure than IE6 on Win2k.
How much of SpyGlass is left in IE7? (Score:5, Interesting)
Now that transparency and CSS is fully implemented (Score:5, Interesting)
My shot (Score:5, Interesting)
IE 8 (Score:5, Interesting)
MOD PARENT UP! (Score:5, Funny)
This is an important question. We don't want people to view the average slashdotter as able to participate in a calm, reasonable discussion. We need to be viewed as zealots, collectively frothing at the mouth.
I'd even like to see this question include just for humour.
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