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Out of morbid curiosity, I happened to wander my way to Bing, Microsoft's supposed Google killer. Wanting to see their half-baked attempt to beat out the features Google offers, I clicked along the links at the top until I hit Maps. That brought me here.
Here was Microsoft, telling me my browser (Firefox 3.5, a completely supported and mostly standards-compliant browser), may not work well with a site Microsoft released in order to beat Google.
NO.
Do you realize how much time you've made the ENTIRE WEB DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY waste on making your browser and ONLY your browser work the same way as EVERY OTHER BROWSER OUT THERE? Do you realize how much pain you've caused EVERYONE in stalling web development for years, how much you've held the entire Internet back just by DELIBERATELY REFUSING to make your browser work? And after that, do you really think that I or anyone else in the web development community has even the SLIGHTEST bit of sympathy for you if you couldn't be bothered to test your fucking gimmicky site in other browsers?
No. No, Microsoft, you don't get to tell me my browser isn't supported. If you want to beat Google, you're going to bring yourself in line with the rest of the web, and you're going to develop websites on the same terms as everybody else. You do not have the market share to demand that people use browsers you choose anymore. It's 2009. It's about time you learned how the web works and stop insulting everyone who isn't you.
Here was Microsoft, telling me my browser (Firefox 3.5, a completely supported and mostly standards-compliant browser), may not work well with a site Microsoft released in order to beat Google.
NO.
Do you realize how much time you've made the ENTIRE WEB DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY waste on making your browser and ONLY your browser work the same way as EVERY OTHER BROWSER OUT THERE? Do you realize how much pain you've caused EVERYONE in stalling web development for years, how much you've held the entire Internet back just by DELIBERATELY REFUSING to make your browser work? And after that, do you really think that I or anyone else in the web development community has even the SLIGHTEST bit of sympathy for you if you couldn't be bothered to test your fucking gimmicky site in other browsers?
No. No, Microsoft, you don't get to tell me my browser isn't supported. If you want to beat Google, you're going to bring yourself in line with the rest of the web, and you're going to develop websites on the same terms as everybody else. You do not have the market share to demand that people use browsers you choose anymore. It's 2009. It's about time you learned how the web works and stop insulting everyone who isn't you.