New Browser Should Not Mean Redesigning a Website

The IE product team still doesn’t get it. They don’t understand that a web browser change should not result in a website needing to be redesigned or updated. Assuming a site hasn’t done anything too browser-centric, the fact that clients may use a new browser to view the site shouldn’t matter. This is why we have web standards organizations.

Scoble points to a post on the IE team blog where, among other things, they talk about “The only way for us to continue to improve our standards support is to get your help in changing your sites for IE7″.

No, no, no. Folks shouldn’t have to change their sites because Microsoft ships a new browser. If folks want to make some tweaks that might exploit some new IE-only features, that’s an option, but to imply that the only way Microsoft can adhere to web standards is if webmasters change their sites is incredibly arrogant and ignorant of the way that the web should work.