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I can't say who is to blame for this mess, but I offer three related pieces of information.
First, it is not relevant to mention HTML emails. The email clients each have their own HTML interpreters and they do not attempt to support the current standards. When my company stated doing emails to our customers, the email vendor gave us a 20-page document of restrictions. Outlook, for example, seems to support something around IE 4. Forget about JavaScript, external style sheets, and <DIV> tags.
Second, newer versions of IE seem flat-out broken. I can no longer use IE, for example, to access Google Analytics. IE goes into an infinite loop when I try to display a graph, while other browsers work just fine.
Third, many developers (including me and IBM) got hooked early when Internet Explorer offered features that were not supported by other browsers. For example, both Client Access and my IBM i simulator relied on the ability in IE to intercept function key presses, including F1, F4, and F5. Moving to a "standard" browser is tough when the standards do not address functionality that is critical when doing something my Windows-loving son-in-law would call "a sin against nature" -- simulating a 5250 screen within a browser window.
Like everyone, I'm moving to the HTML5 standard to support mobile devices, tablets, etc. But it may mean doing some weird things (like displaying a pop-up window of function keys) to support the existing functionality.
Bill
William A. Hansen
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Manta Technologies Inc.
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