[dba-Tech] Microsoft is now helping to build and improve Webit

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Wed Feb 6 01:48:55 CST 2013


Yay. This is what I've been saying, except that MS should drop their Trident engine and replace it with WebKit. That would be the ideal scenario.

- Hans


On 2013-02-05, at 10:09 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> In a bit of a turn around Microsoft has decided to support Webkit and has
> actually added a series of touch capabilities to product.
> 
> Quote: "...The contribution comes not long after Redmond encouraged Web
> developers to remember Internet Explorer and not assume that WebKit is the
> only rendering engine that's used on the mobile, touch-oriented Web..."
> 
> So many web tech developers have abandoned developing in Internet Explorer,
> all together (less than 15 percent of developers now admit to supporting IE)
> that even the MS management have started to realize that if they want IE to
> survive and they and other browsers just have to start following industry
> standards. Better late than never to join the W3C choir. 
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/microsoft-offers-patch
> es-to-webkit-to-aid-touch-compatibility/
> 
> Jim
> 
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