Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Dec 14 14:22:42 CST 2012
I still think, if I were steering the ship that is Microsoft, I would swallow my pride and cut the Trident engine loose and adopt either Mozillas Gecko or Safari/Chromes WebKit rendering engine. In the overall perspective, IE market share is in a free fall, while Chrome and Safari are gaining. But, perhaps this explains why Microsoft has placed restrictions in Windows RT that IE can be the only browser. Maybe their hope is that most users will buy the cheaper Windows RT devices (while leaving the more expensive Intel version open, so not to get into trouble with regulators), thus forcing web developers to pay attention to IE again. It's a bit of a gambit, but you have to appreciate the irony that a decade ago, many sites on the internet would actually have a disclaimer saying that "this site is optimised for Internet Explorer", but these days, many sites not say "Sorry, but Internet Explorer isn't supported". When you have stats like these: http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/09/03/after-steep-ie-decline-chrome-poised-become-popular-browser-uk-safari-rising-worldwide/ you can tell that Microsoft is probably in a bit of a panic about this (they should be!). Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen On 14 Dec 2012, at 11:39, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > The sad thing about this is that web developers, for the most part will now > continue ignoring IE as it has strayed so far off the industry standards. > > The cost to the web developers for supporting IE is usually between 40 and > 50 percent more than supporting the other browsers. Stats have stated that > there is less than 15 percent of developers who are actively supporting IE > and with that recent announcement those percentages will continue to drop. > > It will only go to hurt Microsoft and their customers in the long run. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian > Andersen > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 7:16 AM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Internet Explorer Data Leakage (versions 6 to 10) > > > Here you go: > > EU antitrust regulators let Microsoft limit browsers on Windows RT - > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232884/EU_antitrust_regulators_let_M > icrosoft_limit_browsers_on_Windows_RT > > > Best regards, > Hans-Christian Andersen > > > On 14 Dec 2012, at 02:57, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote: > >> <<< >> On WinRT, Microsoft restricts access to APIs to the extent that its > impossible. >> Please provide links on information proving that statement. >> At least for WinRT one can develop apps using HTML5 and JavaScript running > within IE instance probably - do you mean WinRT will block external > third-parties API/Web services calls even in this case? > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com