It has always been a mystery to me why Microsoft decided to disregard web standards and just do whatever they wanted it. I was so dumb to realize when the answer was so simple, after all, this is Microsoft we are talking about.

This blog post Computerwolrd gives us a nice perspective into Microsoft Evil and the apperance of Racist Websites (here’s a list of some of these websites) . In the author’s own words: “Making IE behave differently from truly standards-based browsers reinforced corporate decisions to standardize on IE and develop their Web applications in non-standard ways. And every time “This Web site requires IE to work correctly” appeared on a site it squeezed companies that made other browsers, like Opera, further into a tiny corner of the market.”

See, even though this blog is Called Stupid IE, deep down inside I knew there was something more to it but I never intended to realize that I was the stupid one. You see, Microsoft has always been evil and when you don’t understand something they do (300Mb patch anyone?) you only need to think with the evilest, darkest more atrocious and destructive way you can so that you can think as Microsoft.

Here’s a little script of how I think things went down on Microsoft when developing IE6:

Chief Programmer: Mr executive, we are halfway done with IE6 and so far we are doing very good with standards.
Mr Executive: Standars?? What does that mean? Whose standards.
CP: Well Mr. Executive, Web standards, our browser is conforming very well to the W3c and our browser will be loved by developers.
ME: Hold on Mr Chief Programmer, if we put a product out that works right from the start, how are we supposed to make any money?
CP: Huh?
ME: Do me a favor and rewrite this whole thing so that it does things that no other browser do so that we change the standard and we force everybody to use our browser. Throw in a couple of proprietary things and tie the browser very deeply with our Windows operating system.
CP: But Mr. Executive, we need to lunch this browser in one month. There is no way we will have it ready on time.
ME: Even better than I thought. This will force people to get our patches so that we can install more and more crap on their systems to fuck it up even worse and make them buy our newer operating systems promising to fix all the fuck ups we did in the first place. This is perfect, absolutely perfect.

Well, the real story might differ a little bit from this post but at least we can all rest peacfully knowing the truth behind the racists websites we have all encountered.