So, yeah, a few days ago, Opera made a formal complaint to the EU about how Internet Explorer hurts the internet. And frankly, I agree!

I’ve done my fair share of web development, and I must say, anyone that does it as a career, has my respect. If you write proper xhtml and css, you know it will work and validate properly in Opera. You know theres a greater than 95% chance it’ll work in Firefox. For IE6 and IE7, you better sacrifice a newborn goat or two.

That is unacceptable. Period. Thanks to Microsoft, web developers now suffer from ulcers, premature baldness, and any manner of symptoms related to stress. I consider the very wacky and often unusable interfaces out there to be one of those.

Web developers should set up a class action suit against Microsoft, for creating a product that causes such health issues. I’m not joking. They have a valid claim against Microsoft, and the ensuing PR mess would actually spur some action. Maybe they might even conform wholly to CSS 1.0!

Microsoft pledged to follow the standards ( way back in 1998), and has not even come close since! They have been convicted, repeatedly, of monopolistic actions. And, their product, IE6 and IE7 come standard with Windows, which is on 90% of the computers out there. Therefore, the web developer cannot avoid the horror of IE.

Therefore, they have a case.