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Problem is, a lot of custom software depends on ActiveX controls and other plugins that work in IE but not anywhere else. Until WebKit or Gecko start wrapping
by statictype 17y ago
Problem is, a lot of custom software depends on ActiveX controls and other plugins that work in IE but not anywhere else.
Until WebKit or Gecko start wrapping activex (not likely and doesn't seem like something they should be spending time on anyway), IE will continue to have significant usage - at least within companies.
Also, there's the pride issue of dropping their own rendering engine for one sponsored by Apple.
- ecoffey 17y agoRight, thats why I'm saying leave all the IE rendering engine bits and pieces, but the IE UI itself is built on webkit. Didn't they lift some BSD networking code for NT back in the day? So clearly they have no problem with doing it :-) (indeed its encouraged by the license). And developers the world over would celebrate!