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This is very good, I'm glad the team have done such a good job - but I don't think the IE team will manager to 'win back' developers unless IE9 can replace IE6/
by lwhi 16y ago
This is very good, I'm glad the team have done such a good job - but I don't think the IE team will manager to 'win back' developers unless IE9 can replace IE6/7 and 8.
Ideally IE9 needs to fix the problems that the older legacy browsers created. Because it can't be run on Windows XP, IE9 can only complement the mistakes that were previously made.
- brudgers 16y agoMy suspicion is that part of the motivation for IE9 is encourage upgrades from XP. Otherwise, there isn't much of an economic basis for its development because unlike Chrome, IE doesn't send every keystroke in the address bar to a server for analysis.
- lwhi 16y agoI agree - that's the main motivation .. but realistically, a lot of people will stick with Windows XP. Microsoft rarely seems to think that altruism can align with good business sense, and I think it suffers because of this.