4 ms·
You know what is so amazing about this tradition? It is not about the software or the companies that build them, it is about people sharing their 'love' and res
by neya 14y ago
You know what is so amazing about this tradition? It is not about the software or the companies that build them, it is about people sharing their 'love' and respect for each other citing the software as a reason. I simply love this. I think even we should team up and send pg, and his new YC teams a cake every year (without expecting a cake in return :P ) :)
- keithpeter 14y agoI would imagine that these two teams, and the Chrome team, are the only people who fully understand what supporting an application as complex as a Web browser entails. And the IE10 team are now dealing with different architectures (arm and x86?).
- davej 14y agoOpera?
- keithpeter 14y agoOh, yes, how could I forget Opera, cross platform, cross architecture, mobile and PCs. Perhaps it is hard to get cakes to Oslo?
- salmanapk 14y agoHell it even runs on TVs!
- tangue 14y agoI love this browser it ran flawlessly on almost anything, and when it comes to cake Opera is hard to beat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_cake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_cake
- ygra 14y agoIE has dealt with different architectures since its very beginning, as has Windows. Recall that Windows so far ran on x86, x86-64, IA64, DEC Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC and ARM (and I probably forgot a few). Also they re-used the Trident Engine whenever they needed a browser on another device, so ARM isn't exactly new to them (Windows Phone) or even other platforms (XBox 360 is PowerPC).
- mitchty 14y agoDont forget IE4 (iirc) that ran on sparc solaris.
- k-mcgrady 14y agoSafari? It runs on OS X, Windows and iOS. So arm and x86.
- keithpeter 14y agoYes, Webkit is widely used on Linux as well as in Chrome...
- TheTruthIsHere 14y agoWinCE with IE has been running on ARM for a long time. I had a Sony phone back in the 90s running a version of IE, there were versions for PowerPC MacOS and some Unix-es (don't know the CPU arch on those and that may have been done by an external company).
- no_more_death 14y agoFirefox also runs on ARM Android devices. So it's not just IE10 that runs on multiple architectures.
- keithpeter 14y agoSure does, I was welcoming the Microsoft team to the world of multiple processor types! I think there is still a PPC build of Firefox for Linux as well...
- Volscio 14y agoI for one love that there's decent competition right now, and not just IE or Netscape. It puzzles me when people are so divisive about iOS, Android, Windows RT, etc. when we have more viable alternatives than we used to. (though we could still use more)