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Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral
- allenp 17y agoNice chance for some free advertising there. Maybe they should kill their software more often?
- CoreDumpling 17y agoIn spite of all the hate IE gets, I have to concede that their developers are rather decent people. I'm sure the cake [1] they sent to Mozilla was a gesture of honest goodwill. [1] http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=24004 http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=24004
- Locke1689 17y agoIn spite of all the hate IE gets, I have to concede that their developers are rather decent people. Of course. Some Microsoft people may even frequent HN. ;)
- jf 17y agoWe do. :D
- olliesaunders 17y agoYeah, I'm pretty sure Microsoft is full of great people, it's just that crazy CEO of theirs.
- sketerpot 17y agoAnd that damn web browser they make. (I make a web site. It works great in every browser I try... until I open it in Internet Explorer, where it's all messed up. This is not an isolated incident.)
- duskwuff 17y agoThe instances where you don't have to implement IE workarounds are the isolated incidents, in my experience.
- makeramen 17y agoI'm surprised the IE team hasn't made more progress considering the easygoing attitude they express with these antics including that cake they sent to Mozilla for FF3. I guess being fun doesn't necessarily mean your software will be too.
- locopati 17y agoEasy for them to laugh - they don't have implement IE6 workarounds.
- zaatar 17y agoThat's what you think ... :)
- code_duck 17y agoI've had problems with IE6 on live.com and bing, so you may be correct...
- tlrobinson 17y agoNo, they implement Firefox, WebKit, and Opera workarounds ;)
- MikeCapone 17y agoI think they just call those HTML standards workarounds...
- endtime 17y agoI had to implement an IE8 workaround when I worked at Microsoft, does that count?
- pavs 17y agoDo IE developers at MSFT just suck really bad or they don't care? I am interested to know how can they fail so bad when much smaller team of developers like Opera does it so well.
- endtime 17y agoI didn't meet any of them - different part of the company. I was in Office. But from what I hear, IE9 will dispel the notion that they suck...but I didn't see anything firsthand.
- sidmitra 17y agoI still think buying Opera, and adopting/adapting would be a good thing for Microsoft. It would give them a major playing hand in the mobile browser market too. From Opera's perspective, they might gain a lot of users overnight, which may or may not be a good thing. But i do think Opera as a browser is the neatest, most feature-rich and yet unbloated piece of software i've seen. And they deserve a bigger desktop market share than they currently have.
- daeken 17y agoI strongly doubt that will ever happen due to fears of additional antitrust complaints. What I think eventually will happen, however, is that they put their support behind Webkit. Wishful thinking perhaps, but I don't think it's outside of the realm of possibilities.
- cmgarcia 17y agoUpvoted solely for having the same wish. Some may say I'm a dreamer.
- NathanKP 17y agoI'm sure they will eventually. However I fear that just like with a lot of other Microsoft implementations the IE Webkit will be bloated, processor intensive, and generally a painful thing to use.
- jmtulloss 17y agoWhy do you think they will? When has MS ever done something like this?
- NathanKP 17y agoAll you have to do is compare page render times, JavaScript parsing and execution times, and other major metrics between IE and Firefox or IE and Safari and you will see that IE tends to be considerably less efficient that its competition. I'm just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens with a Microsoft Webkit implementation. Microsoft products are getting better in recent years, but I still wouldn't get my hopes up too high.