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> The only reason it doesn’t have all of the features as Chrome and Firefox is because they rebuilt the thing from scratch so that adding more features in the f

by jabiko 14y ago

> The only reason it doesn’t have all of the features as Chrome and Firefox is because they rebuilt the thing from scratch so that adding more features in the future would be easier. Let me say that again: they rebuilt the browser from scratch. Is there any source for this? I doubt that IE9 was build from scratch.

mmcnickle 14y ago
"With IE9, we rewrote our layout engine from scratch." -- Jason Weber, lead program manager for IE performance [1] "Microsoft debuted the new browser at a launch event at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. Dean Hachamovitch, the corporate vice president of Internet Explorer, told the story of how Microsoft built IE9 from scratch." [2] [1]http://www.geekwire.com/2011/geeks-guide-to-ie9/ http://www.geekwire.com/2011/geeks-guide-to-ie9/ [2]http://mashable.com/2011/03/14/after-40-million-downloads-microsoft-launches-internet-explorer-9/ http://mashable.com/2011/03/14/after-40-million-downloads-mi...