In Top firms’ websites not ready for IE7, we learn of a “short internal study” to “[compare] the homepages of all one hundred FTSE 100 companies in both IE6 and IE7.” And the conclusion of this “study” is that 13% of the web sites are not ready for IE7. I shite you notsky. They don’t say “IE7 borks on this site and that site,” or “incompatibilities have been found on sites that prevent proper display on IE7.” Nononono. They say that the sites are not ready for IE7. Never mind that the web sites mentioned as having failed are, like for instance in the case of The Sage Group’s, Valid XHTML.

“It is worth pointing out, however, that the general lack of adherence to web standards among the FTSE 100 companies may have insulated them somewhat from IE7’s various bugs and glitches,” said the Etre statement.

While I fail to see the relation between lack of adherence to W3C’s standards and being protected from IE7’s glitches – apparently Etre hasn’t checked the validator either… This is fucking retarded.

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