Comments on: Chris Wilson

by: webmaster

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:25:27 +0000

I think you did a great job of pointing out the major strengths and weaknesses of the book.

by: philip

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:19:34 +0000

Chris Wilson: It seems to be that you must be a lying snake to work at microsoft, as I suspected:

“Is IE going to auto-update to IE7? I think that the first thing really is that we can’t really force it on users. …I do believe that we will offer it through Windows Update, but it won’t be an automatic silent update, certainly it won’t be like you come in one day and suddenly your computer’s running IE7 rather than IE6. Certainly we have to ask the user if they really want it.”

Well, today, November 1, it is a “high priority update” which means that if your system is set to download install them automatically, what will happen is exactly the opposite of what you said. You are a liar, Chris Wilson.

I’ve gotten numberous letters from web app providers instructing the prevention of the auto update to IE7 because the apps are not fully compatable with IE7. That’s fine with companies with a small number of systems, but what about the companies with thousands of systems that will be unable to run certain web apps? Huge amount of company down time, lost productivity, lost revenue. Great work microsoft. Just spectacular.

by: Chad Burt

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:13:11 +0000

Your right, nobody cares about my views on IE. My point is that if you are doing an interview, ask some questions your audience might care about.

Gushing over an RSS feed icon isn’t something Vitamin readers are interested in.

by: Ryan Carson

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:59:54 +0000

This Ryan Carson is letting a member of the IE team “plug” their lame product on a Vitamin, a standards oriented site.

Chad, whether you like IE or not isn’t relevant, I’m afraid. The majority of the world uses IE, so as web professionals, we have to be interested in IE.

When we get the chance to sit down for a personal interview with the project leader of the world’s biggest browser, it’s a good opportunity to give you insight into what they’re up to.

by: Chad Burt

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:38:39 +0000

That wasn’t deserving of the label interview. This Ryan Carson is letting a member of the IE team “plug” their lame product on a Vitamin, a standards oriented site.
Internet Explorer 7 makes almost no improvements over past IE implementations of the DOM, CSS, (X)HTML, SVG, or nearly any other spec you can think of. Why didn’t you bring that up when talking about the Web Standards Project, rather than make a fool of yourself wowzering over RSS support?

This interview really brings Vitamin down a notch in my view.

by: SR

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:34:38 +0000

Thanks for the transcript. Hopefully you will continue doing this in the future!

by: CSS3 . info - » IE6 isn’t going anywhere yet - Weblog

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:36:00 +0000

[…] Vitamin have posted an interview with Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft. […]

by: Interview with Chris Wilson » Project Syndicate

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:13:58 +0000

[…] Vitamin has an interview with Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager of the Internet Explorer Platform team at Microsoft. They’re not calling it a podcast, but I’m going to. (Being a podcaster myself, I’m capable only of speaking in hip web terminology.) At just over 5 minutes, it’s a quick and easy listen. […]

by: fordie’s blog » Get ready for IE7 - now

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:14:51 +0000

[…] The IE team have Today announced on their blog that IE7 (Seven) will be pushed out to Windows XP users using MS automatic update (contrary to what Chris Wilson told Vitamin). This will happen some time in the fourth quater of this year. […]

by: Philippe

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:49:38 +0000

Comment 1 already asked for it: will you make a transcript available ? Not everybody is able to listen to / understand sound based information.

Thank you.