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What's stopping them from focusing on supporting the features devs want They're trying to be more customer-focused, but with limited success. I don't know any
by Fizzer 15y ago
What's stopping them from focusing on supporting the features devs want
They're trying to be more customer-focused, but with limited success. I don't know anyone that uses slices, for example. They did invent private browsing though, but it was quickly copied by the other browsers.
This doesn't mean they ignore developers. The integrated developer tools are pretty good.
or rivalling other browsers in compatibility
They've been trying since IE7, but they're basically being out-engineered. They 're trying to keep backwards compatibility with all of the IE plug-ins which slows them down, and of course they also started out behind.
or just straight up use webkit
Microsoft suffers from the not-invented-here syndrome. They'll use their own engine or die trying.