The real unknown is whether or not IE's release cadence (currently at about a 1.5-2 year cycle) is sustainable when every other browser is on a much shorter cycle (in some cases 1/4 that). IE9 may be the bee's knees, but if Google puts out another set of half a dozen releases as substantive as those prior between IE9 and 10 how does IE keep up and stay relevant?
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
#22IE 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.
Personally I can't see why they don't stick an IE badge on webkit and be done with it.
Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
#23While I am happy too that the new version of IE is coming soon and it supports the latest standards, let us not forget that we all were saying the exact same thing when IE7 and IE8 came out: This new release will help developers very much by supporting the latest standards. The problems is not with supporting a subset of the latest standards. The problem is that the latest standards change over time and IE stays the…
They could shorten their release cycle but it wouldn't change the behavior of their largest customers.
Consider a large organization that finally installed IE7. [Welcome to 2006!]
I'm sure we'll have to deal with this for years to come (unfortunately), and neglecting corporate customers leaves a lot of money on the table.
Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
#24I'm still trying to decide how I want to install it. Being able to test all versions of IE on a single machine is getting impossible.
I have a Windows 7 virtual machine for testing IE8, a Vista vm for IE7, and an Windows XP for testing IE6. And I only have one license of each system, and I don't really want to drop my ability to test IE7 or IE8.
Fuck you Microsoft!!
Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Personally I can't see why they don't stick an IE badge on webkit and be done with it.
. . . or a Windows badge on Linux.
Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
#26I'm still trying to decide how I want to install it. Being able to test all versions of IE on a single machine is getting impossible. I have a Windows 7 virtual machine for testing IE8, a Vista vm for IE7, and an Windows XP for testing IE6. And I only have one license of each system, and I don't really want to drop my ability to test IE7 or IE8. Fuck you Microsoft!!
I know the feeling, but they're stuck too--they want XP to go away and can't get rid of that either.
Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally I can't see why they don't stick an IE badge on webkit and be done with it.
. . . or a Windows badge on Linux.
For the most part webapps will work under any OS with a browser, you can't really say the same thing about Windows/Linux software.
Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Personally I can't see why they don't stick an IE badge on webkit and be done with it.
webkit has a fatal flaw: they didn't write it!
Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
#29That interface looks like ass.
Re: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
#30Does it run on Linux? OSX?
Thought so.