As web developers, we have scruples. Two things that have been approaching our radar lately affect everyone who gets mail using Microsoft Outlook, or anyone that goes online. That’s a lot of people.

First let’s talk about Outlook. For the last several versions of Office, Outlook has been using Microsoft Word’s HTML rendering to show HTML emails in Outlook. Word doesn’t follow web standards, nor does it have some of even the most basic features of HTML. Microsoft recently announced that they will go ahead and use Word’s rendering engine in Outlook 2010, even with the public outcry against that decision. You can join us and ~25,000+ others that want to have Microsoft change this. If they supported a standards based rendering engine, we could make your e-blasts so much prettier! Just imagine being able to code emails without tables, and with background images! For more info, check out http://fixoutlook.org/.

Another problem that is currently being brought up is the killing off of Internet Explorer 6. Several initiatives have come and gone, trying and trying again to kill off the 9 year old browser, but it somehow still lingers in the 15%-20% range of browsers used today. This thing is terrible! Ask any web developer what browser gives them the most trouble. It wasn’t so bad when it came out in 2000, but it’s really holding back the future of web development. The latest initiative is IE6 No More. Feel free to click here and see the Google results for “Kill IE6.” This is exactly how we feel about IE6, and when I say “we”, I mean the entire world.

Join us as we stand together and oppose the oppression of the internet and fight to make the World Wide Web a prettier, more user friendly world to live in.