Comments on: Microsoft Probably Not Really Considering WebKit For IE

By: SEO Company

SEO Company — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:02:43 +0000

Thanks for the interesting comments. Hope some body from MS listening.

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By: Sherwin

Sherwin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:40:43 +0000

Why Microsoft won’t conform is quite interesting. It doesn’t seem to make any sense to continue building browsers based on a flawed engine. I know for a fact that some people are just too lazy/afraid to use any browser than the one that came with their copy of Windows. They’re probably just leveraging on that.

Maybe it’s time that designers stopped designing for IE, forcing users to migrate to other browsers.

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Learn SEO PPC — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:29:47 +0000

I concur with A.Faith.. I seriously think that Microsoft should take a step back from Capitalism and switch to Socialism. It’s high time that they open some of their products as Open Source.

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By: anon

anon — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:53:12 +0000

Although not a fan coding to IE’s rendering eccentricities, it will be good to have it separate in the market from this point. MSFT can *never* move towards a shared architecture with IE. They will, and must, maintain a separate set of tools to keep focus on their “whole product” value proposition (.Net, C#, WPF, etc). I never thought I’d say this, but MSFT needs to pursue an independent path for the benefit of the overall market’s innovation growth. MSFT has to get the right mix in the next few years of standards support plus MSFT added value. I hope they do. Weird saying that since I really think MSFT has been one of the great hindrances to innovation since probably the mid-90s (I know others would argue the opposite, but that’s a IMHO). But that time is past.

By: A.Faith

A.Faith — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:31:27 +0000

I lived to see Ballmer considering OpenSource a viable option for Microsoft’s products…
What happened with “Linux (and OSS) like a cancer” thing?
damn I feel good!

By: phenom

phenom — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:28:34 +0000

They should include IE in the WebKit and get rid of all the existing issues which are nightmare for developers.

http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: Someone

Someone — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:22:28 +0000

There are many reasons why all the browsers shouldn’t use the same rendering engine. But protection from exploits is not one of them. If all the browsers use the same rendering engine, and it gets exploited, then many 10s of millions of users are at risk. And if all browsers use different rendering engine, and one gets exploited, even then many 10s of millions of users are at risk.

When an exploit is found, does it matter if 50 million users are at risk vs 100 million users are at risk?

By: jro

jro — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:23:38 +0000

“It’s highly unlikely that Microsoft would endorse an open-source product in such a big way”

Robin, do some homework.

http://weblogs....-microsoft.aspx

You’re talking about the Developer division. Say what you want about the OS and Office divisions, the Developer division makes some great tools.

Call Scott Guthrie, he’ll give you a straight answer.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:12:58 +0000

Microsoft will continue to lose market share to WebKit based browsers unless they significantly change IE. It is a piece of junk.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:49:35 +0000

Pre-IE7 I really hoped that Microsoft would consider implementing Gecko as there rendering engine (it was already open source and webkit wasn’t available at the time.) It never made sense to me that they would continue to devote resources to improving a broken engine when there was a really good one that was freely available. I understand that legacy support was an issue, but now that they’re committed to supporting standards and providing multiple engines (the current IE8 beta uses a total rewrite as I understand it) it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to throw away money on their own engine which will always be playing catchup. Let open source developers do the work for you, Microsoft.

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piku — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:15:52 +0000

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By: sam

sam — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:11:04 +0000

we may look at that” is executive-speak for “I’d like to tell you what I really think of your bone-headed question,

By: DGentry

DGentry — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:19:35 +0000

In this case I think “we may look at that” is executive-speak for “I’d like to tell you what I really think of your bone-headed question, but there are reporters present.”

By: insic

insic — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:14:53 +0000

lol maybe they are giving up on developing their own. webkit is good

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By: Mark Bao

Mark Bao — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:33:00 +0000

That’s a shame, because IE’s rendering engine will only become more and more and more cluttered and terrible. It’s already crap, it’s only going to become more crap as it is developed further.

WebKit and Gecko are widely considered the “correct” rendering – in other words, they render with correct standards and without idiotic bugs. It only seems to make sense to move to that, because people are dropping support for IE6 because of how much fail it is.

By: Shawn Makinson

Shawn Makinson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:32:36 +0000

All I can say is…please!?

By: zet

zet — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:58:13 +0000

they should just buy Opera