This is a little confusing but HTML, CSS, web standards evangelist, Molley E. Holzschlag wrote on her blog today that she is Working on contract basis for Microsoft with Internet Exploer team. She also mentions that she will be working with the Expression Web (Microsoft’s new web design product replacing FrontPage) team. You may not know Molly, but she has been one of the leaders pushing web standards and suddenly going to work for Microsoft has the connotations of Dick Cheney announcing his new position as the head of Al-Quaeda’s intelligence forces in the US.
Yes, I know that having that kind of influence within Microsoft will take web standards deep into the marketplace, but quite often Microsoft has ignored web standards and invented their own IE standard that everyone has to play by. The other announcement in her blog post that strikes me as unusual is who she is pulling into the IE world with her. She says, “our group will be publishing educational material for designers and developers from such noted industry experts as Eric Meyer, Christopher Schmitt and Aaron Gustafson.”
