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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 10:03:42 PM in Web Standards

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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Microsoft made great leaps forward with IE8, and just when I start thinking they deserve a nice pat on the back for embracing standards, they give me another reason to lose faith in them.

The recent announcement is that Outlook 2010, like Outlook 2007, will use Microsoft Word for it's rendering engine. No...you read that right...Word's rendering engine. A rendering engine that doesn't support simple CSS statements like float, width or height. Here's their stance on why they're opting to use the Word ....

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