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You do realize that Microsoft support both box models since version 6, right? The fact that they continue to support their flawed box model is not unusual. Maintaining backward compatibility is a big issue for Microsoft. They always strive to maintain backward compatibility. [[Raymond Chen]] writes about this all the time. [[User:AlistairMcMillan|AlistairMcMillan]] 18:12, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
A lot of you are missing the point. Microsoft and the W3C released separate, documented standards for defining the visual properties of an element. Just because one became more accepted as a standard does not immediately place the other one as "bug" in the traditional sense. That's like saying that a Corel Wordperfect document has a bug because it does not open as expected in Microsoft Word. Or that HD-DVD is a bug in the high definition disc, because it doesn't work as expected in my Blu-Ray player. It isn't a bug. It's a difference in spec. I may have personal opinions on the matter, about whether or not I agree that if I stuff a 5 1/2-foot refrigerator box with 2 1/2 feet of padding on all sides, that the height of my refrigerator box is now 6 inches. Really? Because it kinda still looks 5 1/2 feet tall. But that's the standard, and yes, it's good for everyone if we all agree that the height of the box is 6 inches. The Standards for Refrigerator Measurement disagreed with G.E. on how to measure the box, and we've sided with the SRM. Great, move on. But G.E. was not wrong for suggesting originally that the box is 5 1/2 feet tall because, um, it is. --[[Special:Contributions/66.119.170.242|66.119.170.242]] ([[User talk:66.119.170.242|talk]]) 20:52, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
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