Comments on: IE9 – Perhaps Not So Much http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2009/11/19/ie9-perhaps-not-so-much/ Technology News, Reviews & How-To Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: John Gout Cure http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2009/11/19/ie9-perhaps-not-so-much/#comment-35658 John Gout Cure Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:17:26 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/it/?p=9477#comment-35658 I'm been a Microsoft fan as of late and highly prefer Windows over either Linux or OS X, but I have to say that Microsoft seems to have thrown in the towel with IE. There was one time in the past where Netscape was trash and IE4/5 led the way in standards, but Firefox is now on the verge of surpassing IE in market share and the IE team is wholly to blame. IE8 may have started to offer some token nod to standards support, but it seems to be one of the worst pieces of junk to come out from MS lately, crashing within a few minutes of use (at least in the Win 7 RC). It lacks so many things that Firefox users take for granted which I don't even want to list because I'd take up half the page with my comment. The *ONLY* hope MS has of making a comeback is to stop thinking of Silverlight as their great white hope (although they should continue improving it) and realize that the browser DOM is where all the action is occurring. They have to write a completely .NET-based browser where the DOM is scriptable from any .NET language while retaining compatibility with existing web standards. Embrace and extend all over again. Ironically, **exactly like how Netscape lost the web**, Microsoft is now paying for ignoring web standards and thinking it can set them for the rest of us through sheer market share. That always seems to end up in tragedy for the guilty party. I’m been a Microsoft fan as of late and highly prefer Windows over either Linux or OS X, but I have to say that Microsoft seems to have thrown in the towel with IE. There was one time in the past where Netscape was trash and IE4/5 led the way in standards, but Firefox is now on the verge of surpassing IE in market share and the IE team is wholly to blame.

IE8 may have started to offer some token nod to standards support, but it seems to be one of the worst pieces of junk to come out from MS lately, crashing within a few minutes of use (at least in the Win 7 RC). It lacks so many things that Firefox users take for granted which I don’t even want to list because I’d take up half the page with my comment.

The *ONLY* hope MS has of making a comeback is to stop thinking of Silverlight as their great white hope (although they should continue improving it) and realize that the browser DOM is where all the action is occurring. They have to write a completely .NET-based browser where the DOM is scriptable from any .NET language while retaining compatibility with existing web standards. Embrace and extend all over again.

Ironically, **exactly like how Netscape lost the web**, Microsoft is now paying for ignoring web standards and thinking it can set them for the rest of us through sheer market share. That always seems to end up in tragedy for the guilty party.

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