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I wish it were this simple but it's not. Most small and medium sized businesses still run at least one web applications that was written when IE had 90% of the
by SamAtt 16y ago
I wish it were this simple but it's not.
Most small and medium sized businesses still run at least one web applications that was written when IE had 90% of the market and which relies on Microsoft's backwards implementations.
I suspect Microsoft couldn't make Webkit backwards compatible to those apps if it wanted to. The trident code base probably has quirks Microsoft itself has completely forgotten about. But many small web based programs rely on those quirks to run.
- danieldon 16y agoI can't believe it's nearly as common as it was 5 years ago. It's anecdotal, but all of the big IE-only industry-specific web apps I've had contact with have been rebuilt. There certainly are some in the wild, but Microsoft doesn't need to have support for these old applications hold back progress. They certainly can (and do) have separate modes within the same browser, they could even run separate engines. They could also just distribute a separate "Legacy IE" application to support these apps. But that's one of the many problems with Microsoft: they refuse to make hard decisions.
- protomyth 16y agoMicrosoft should release a version of IE6 that can coexist with current browsers and break the compatibility chain. It would cut down on their testing and allow them to move forward.