>The thing that really irratates me about M$$$ is that they are a member of the W3C and have still failed to include native SVG (scalable vector graphics) support in IE7. SVG is suppossed to be thegraphics standard on the web but hard to gain acceptance when a member of the committe does not support it. Must be more money in pushing the Windows only platform of XAML...

Remember the times of W3.x? When pretty much any other image format was either vector graphics or compressed bitmap, M$ was constantly pushing for uncompressed BMP files. Which was good for hardware sales, probably, as you needed larger disks. Just look at VFP itself - not so long ago, any images you could put in .picture property had to be .bmp, then much later support for .jpg and .gif was added, and even later .png too. Or look at the general fields, where a bmp representation of the actual object is stored for preview, so if you add a 4K gif file you may still end up with a 200K blob in the field.

Or take Front Page. How many hosts were running FrontPage extensions - only to have the product scrapped now. And FP was compatible with any server, as long as it ran under NT4 or later, and had FP extensions on it.

BTW, is IE7 finally W3C compliant?