Petition for Microsoft to Just STOP Developing IE

#1

Post by vulgrin » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 2:22 PM UTC

Petition for Microsoft to Just STOP Developing IE
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Re: Petition for Microsoft to Just STOP Developing IE

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Post by vulgrin » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 2:22 PM UTC

Really. Its time. At the minimum, just give up "innovating" and switch to webkit. (as long as you don't insist on wrecking webkit.) Stop this drain on our creative economy.

Re: Petition for Microsoft to Just STOP Developing IE

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Post by jifka » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 2:25 PM UTC

IE, it's time for you to go. You're like the guy who shows up at the party and insists on playing HIS favorite tunes...all of which are Tuvan throat-singers covering Simon & Garfunkel.

Re: Petition for Microsoft to Just STOP Developing IE

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Post by smacktoward » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 2:57 PM UTC

Stopping development of IE is what led to the Great Browser Winter of the IE6 era. Things didn't start moving again until MS reversed course and went back to improving IE.

Defaults are powerful things, and as long as IE is the default browser on the most popular desktop operating system, there's going to be millions upon millions of people using it regardless of how good it is. Stopping development would just turn those people back into an anchor holding back the progress of the Web.