Microsoft Expression Web A hypocrite, compared to IE

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I have heard of this Microsoft Expression software that was released a while ago, and I decided to check it out.

It looks great, but here is the weird part:

 

Q. How is Expression Web different from Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003?

A. Expression Web builds on Microsoft Office FrontPageÂŽ 2003 technologies to provide an unprecedented level of support for creating standards-based Web sites. Valuable feedback from customers like you have helped us create a new product that fully supports Web standards such as Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), cascading style sheets (CSS), and Extensible Markup Language (XML).

 

If you are familiar with FrontPage, then you will find Expression Web easy to use. Expression Web has strong CSS support and takes full advantage of the power of ASP.NET 2.0 with integrated support for server and user controls.

Oh really? I don't want to spend money on buying your software, because I have something similar, but do you seriously support serving XHTML pages as true XHTML, with application/xhtml+xml and everything?

 

Did you spend time improving your support for CSS? Or is it the same level of CSS2.1 support as Windows Internet Explorer 7? What is your definition of strong CSS support? (Why don't you use full CSS support? Or is that even included/possible?)

 

Takes full advantage of the power of ASP.NET 2.0. Are you saying that your other product, Visual Basic 2005, doesn't use the full power of YOUR technology ASP.NET?

 

Q. Can Expression Web be used to create standards-based Web sites using XHTML and CSS?

A. Yes. Expression Web has excellent support for creating and editing XHTML and for using CSS to control the format and layout of pages.

So did you actually implement the correct MIME type support? And add the CSS2.1 requirements that you don't have yet in Internet Explorer 7?

 

Q. What does the ability to support XML mean for Expression Web users?

A. XML is now a universally recognized data storage language that uses customized tags that offer flexibility in organizing and presenting information. Expression Web makes it easier to transition content from internal systems onto the Web using XML. With Expression Web, users can define how XML documents are formatted on a Web page by authoring Extensible Style Sheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) directly within Expression Web.

If you have that good of XML and XSLT support, then you must be able to serve XHTML documents as XML, right?

 

So if you have improved all these standards support stuff, why don't you use this Expression rendering engine in Internet Explorer?!?! You are a hypocrite if you enable people to "express" with the correct standards and stuff, but your software doesn't even support the pages created using your software.

 

So lets see it. Release IE 7.1, with the improved "trident" rendering engine. Make it a KnowledgeBase update. High-priority.

 

Of course if you don't have application/xhtml+xml support in Expression Web, then you are lying in your software features, well technically you just hid some crucial information from users.