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Who's putting their bets on Microsoft going open source with Trident and Chakra next? Spartan is an opportunity for them to clean up the mess before releasing t
by ethana 12y ago
Who's putting their bets on Microsoft going open source with Trident and Chakra next? Spartan is an opportunity for them to clean up the mess before releasing the codes I think.
- quonn 12y agoAt least for Chakra, this would make a lot of sense - I can't think of a downside for them. For Trident there is the theoretical downside that IE becomes fully independent of Windows. This currently doesn't matter, but might decrease lock-in in the future.
- higherpurpose 12y agoWindows dependency of IE is one of the worst things about IE - like having to restart your PC to update your browser. What year is this again?
- integraton 12y agoThe fact that it was stagnant, ubiquitous, limited to Windows, and encouraged ActiveX were the major issues, since it made it more difficult and expensive to develop and transition to web applications for about a decade.
- wmf 12y agoWindows will automatically reboot every 6 weeks anyway once evergreen Windows 365 comes out.
- MLR 12y agoI've been thinking that Spartan will probably go cross platform at some point, an opportunity for them to get a few more Microsoft accounts created and it's not like it being Windows only is going to convince people to switch.
- ndesaulniers 12y agoI like IE's dev tools, but my main platform is OSX. Their memory profiler stuff is pretty sweet. If the community could help them maintain builds for other platforms, I would rock that.
- angersock 12y agoMy bet is on Chakra, once open-sourced, becoming the JS backend for Node enterprise.
- bobajeff 12y agoI don't know about "Trident" but I think EdgeHTML and Chakra might become open source. I remember reading some where that they were looking into the pros and cons of doing that.