the IE.next tag
Molly Is Fixing Ur Standards
As some of you already know, Molly E. Holzschlag has signed a contract with Microsoft to work on standards and interoperability issues at the Internet Explorer team. Now she’s getting ready to leave for Redmond and start her work on… what exactly?
Molly needs to do some prioritising and kindly asks the community of Web professionals for their help. What would you like her to focus on?
- Work for IE.next compatibility
- Train internal Microsoft folks on standards
- Travel around and evangelize standards and interoperability
- Write and edit more materials about standards
There are already dozens of comments on her website (including mine) but I want to repeat my opinion here.
It’s a hard decision, actually, since all four points are extremely important. Given Molly’s background and knowledge, however, I think that option 3 is the best. Evangelizing Webstandards and training interested people is what Molly can do best and was she has the most experience with. There are several core teams at Microsoft that need to understand Webstandards and the need for semantics on the Web. If these core teams understand the need for these things, there are others who can take care of implementation details. Evangelizing and micro-educating will, in my opinion, be the best approach.
Let’s hope Molly will get the chance to change a lot in Redmond and get more folks interested in Webstandards. Go Molly!
