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• Stephen

  posted 12 November 2007

  We have people who work on the Windows Mobile bit of MS UK. They're very Microsoft-centric and will develop to IE 6/7 to start with, and then bodge it to work in Firefox at the last minute (if they have time, otherwise it just gets dropped until somebody complains). Safari doesn't really get a look in.
  
  Suggesting this is arse-backwards would incur pointless wrath and change nothing, so I just grimace in the corner, and sacrifice another pastry in an attempt to appease the gods at the W3C.
  
  As to what they think of IE6, they clearly hate it as much as the rest of us - there's no Jobs-a-like reality distortion field on the go, nor any special tools to work round the pain.
  
  Whether it's because they're inexperienced or foolhardy, I'm not sure, but they don't appear to have worked out that using a subset of HTML and CSS as a "lowest common denominator" would relieve tremendous amounts of stress.
  
  Oh and don't get me started on Flash vs. Silverlight. Guess which one MS is gonna push us to use when it goes properly live...

• ed

  posted 12 November 2007

  An old college roommate works there, but (1) I don't have his email and (2) I don't think he's webdev.
  
  Helen of CIC fame also works there, according to Facebook.