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Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game

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Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game

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Post by troutwine »

Better standards support in IE is a boon for everyone; JS shivs and CSS resets only go so far in alleviating development pain. Still, I don't know that I would go so far as to say "back in the game" but, rather, "no longer so shockingly backward;" if only because IE is still chained to Windows. While it _is_ 90% of the desktop market, mobile platforms are making great strides into ubiquity and, at least anecdotally, folks tend to prefer homogeneity of their program set across devices.

Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game

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Post by ericz »

IE has the opportunity to come out with a truly standards compliant product. If they can give it the speed/wow factor the Chrome release had, then they'll be back in the game.

Regardless, if they create a product that is rid of all of the burdens of previous version, ie. ActiveX and BHOs, then they're giving many consumers little reason to switch to a competitor if they're computer is shipped with IE9

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Post by weaksauce »

ericz wrote: post #4

IE has the opportunity to come out with a truly standards compliant product. If they can give it the speed/wow factor the Chrome release had, then they'll be back in the game. Regardless, if they create a product that is rid of all of the burdens of previous version, ie. ActiveX and BHOs, then they're giving many consumers little reason to switch to a competitor if they're computer is shipped with IE9

They need to yank out activex and bhos and focus on security above most other things. I don't know if they will though because of microsofts stance on backwards compatibility but it looks like they are trying to change at least.

Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game

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Post by ergo98 »

ericz wrote: post #4

IE has the opportunity to come out with a truly standards compliant product. If they can give it the speed/wow factor the Chrome release had, then they'll be back in the game. Regardless, if they create a product that is rid of all of the burdens of previous version, ie. ActiveX and BHOs, then they're giving many consumers little reason to switch to a competitor if they're computer is shipped with IE9

All they really need to get back in the game is to come within a lap of the lead browsers -- they don't need users to migrate back from Firefox and Chrome, they just need the "default" browser to be good enough that change isn't necessary.

Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game

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Post by lygaret »

troutwine wrote: post #2

Better standards support in IE is a boon for everyone; JS shivs and CSS resets only go so far in alleviating development pain. Still, I don't know that I would go so far as to say "back in the game" but, rather, "no longer so shockingly backward;" if only because IE is still chained to Windows. While it _is_ 90% of the desktop market, mobile platforms are making great strides into ubiquity and, at least anecdotally,…

"...folks tend to prefer homogeneity of their program set across devices."

You must know different folks than I do. Most of the people I know that aren't developers wonder why the icon for "internet" has a big E on it. I can guarantee you that the grand majority of people don't realize that the web browser on their mobile device isn't the same as the web browser on their desktop. And if they do, they're unlikely to be using IE right now anyway.

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