Sleight of Hand
According to Ian Hickson, he’s had Microsoft developers tell him to his face that they’re not even remotely interested in better standards support for IE. The whole feedback thing is apparently only about new features for the Longhorn release. Or, as Joel would put it, more ‘fire and motion’. Seeing how browsers like Mozilla and Safari are slowly turning into a mature development platform, they are trying to compete on features? They must be pretty confident about XAML.
