[dba-Tech] FYI: Moving to "nirvana": if Microsoft were to shift to WebKit, you can thank Opera.

Salakhetdinov Shamil mcp2004 at mail.ru
Mon Feb 18 17:31:25 CST 2013


 Hi Jim --

OK, let's see how Trident engine/IE will evolve in competition and cooperation with Chrome and Firefox...

BTW, you planned to run IE10 and Chrome 24 tests - waiting for your test results here...

Thank you.

-- Shamil


Понедельник, 18 февраля 2013, 15:14 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Hi Shamil:
>
>It is just that I will be struggling through a website and the owner, a
>small artist, wants MS functionality...and the client was not happy that the
>site will now cost more so they have limited the site size to match their
>budget...it is not pleasant situation as they hold me somehow responsible.
>
>So I was just rambling being on the immediate topic.
>
>Personally, I could care less about who makes a browser or who does not. The
>only one requirement I have is that it works and works right and, at the
>moment, up to my eyebrows in page hacks, I really could not care how this
>task is achieved.
>
>Now I know why, as of a January poll, only 12 percent of web developers
>develop in Microsoft, down from 15 percent last October. 
>
>I apologies for not being very philosophical about this but Microsoft has
>the money and techs to make the Trident engine compatible so it is mandatory
>to get their house in order...or their worse fears and maybe ours, that the
>unfortunate uniculture of the Webkit will be a fact...and Microsoft will be
>to blame. 
>
>Jim 
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