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Hm, nice hype. But what about standards support? For instance, IE since IE10 has been missing some parts of the IndexedDB API. Last I heard, they weren't planni
by streptomycin 11y ago
Hm, nice hype. But what about standards support? For instance, IE since IE10 has been missing some parts of the IndexedDB API. Last I heard, they weren't planning to fix it any time soon https://twitter.com/IEDevChat/status/533338659555008512 https://twitter.com/IEDevChat/status/533338659555008512
This is stuff that a single engineer could easily implement in a couple weeks. Firefox and Chrome have open source implementations and open source unit tests (the W3C has open unit tests too), which makes things even easier. Guess it's too much to ask of a company with the meager resources of MS, though...
- manojlds 11y ago> This is stuff that a single engineer could easily implement in a couple weeks. Just because it can be done by 1 person, doesn't mean there are resources to do so. How many other one person for couple of weeks features are there, you think?
- streptomycin 11y agoI know. It's not realistic to expect tiny non-profits like Microsoft to have the engineering resources of huge corporations like Mozilla. A man can dream, though... If resources are such an issue, maybe Microsoft should go the Netscape path and consider making their browser open source? I'm sure many people would be interested in donating their time to help them support some of these tricky standards. I would love to help them get IndexedDB right! I know some other similarly minded people too.
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