You can not - do not fight

Many times, the topic of the monopoly of Microsoft in the browser market has been discussed on the pages of the online press, but the situation does not change, which makes the world's famous developers recur again and again to this topic. Recently, Hakon Lee, who is responsible at Opera Software for the accuracy of following international W3C standards when creating the Opera browser, published an article on The Register, in which he again explained the position of browser developers in relation to the monopolist. According to Hakon, you need to present the following requirements to the creators of Internet Explorer:

1. By default, passing Acid2 and Acid3 tests, without any additional tricks in the code.
2. Support non-Acid benchmarks for W3C core specifications.
3. Providing complete documentation on functions implemented in IE.
4. The refusal of the practice of introducing "magic" switches that allow you to display content depending on the version of IE.
5. Consistency with other browsers. If at least two popular browsers implement the next standard, it should be implemented in IE.

However, Hakon is confident that MS will find a lot of excuses to avoid the implementation of these items, but the fact is that all other browsers are developed according to these rules. The conclusion at the end of the article is this: if MS talks about the impossibility of fulfilling these prescriptions, it should leave the browser market.

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