‘Modern Web Standards’
What utter crap from Apple. A grand, holier-than-thou claim that IE’s failure to fully support web standards is the reason Apple discourage access to their new site.
A new site whose front page uses tables for layout, whose applications contain precisely no content in HTML and are entirely generated by JavaScript, a site which uses browser sniffing rather than progressive enhancement, fails to provide alt text on various images and suffers divitis littered with inline style elements. A web site whose meta redirect takes you to a faux 404 Not Found page if you have JavaScript disabled.
Even the fake 404 page, with a single column of content, uses tables and doesn’t validate.
Me.com has about as much in common with modern Web Standards as as a rhino and a quad bike.
I might agree with the lack of support of IE6. But lacking support for IE7 may not be the best choice. I know a few companies that their employees can only use IE7 and they are being excluded. Although IE7 may not follow the spec like the other browsers, it is the major browser around, and that should mean something.
Of course as a webdesigner I hate to hack around IE’s rendering, but in some cases I even find IE7’s approach better (like padding being inside width). But I understand that I must address IE7 browsers right now. And Apple doesn’t. Do they want to push Safari3 to their windows users?