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Mozilla: 'Internet Explorer 9 is not a modern browser'
From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/15/mozilla_on_ie9/
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Here is the direct link to the page referenced in the article.
This link spells things out better. I'd swear Paul was reading my words because, for six years, I've been saying IE has never been a modern browser. I've also said that about IE9 but never had the time to look up all the points in the second link. Opera is very good but Firefox is highly programmable. Webkit browsers (Chrome, Safari, Konqueror(?)) are very fast. Anything is far, far better than IE. |
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Actually, there's quite a bit ado. Writing modern code for browsers is complicated enough but getting that same code to work in IE is challenging, if not almost impossible. My company has, at times, spent up to 50% of our time hacking working code to make it work in IE. Many things we can't use at all because IE can't handle it.
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See: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/0...70324F20110104
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Konqueror is not WebKit based! It has its own rendering engine KHTML which predates WebKit. WebKit engine was originally forked of KHTML. If you can put up with WebKit stupidities your best bet for a decent browsers are something like xxxterm, surf or uzbl. I really like xxxterm but WebKit is such a turn off...
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I meant Epiphany but Konqueror can use Webkit somehow.
Writing code that works in Chrome is a dream come true but the user side irritates some people, particularly Chrome, due to its somewhat spartan interface. I only use Safari for testing and I don't know how much Mac users use Safari. |
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> only use Safari for testing and I don't know how much Mac users use Safari.
I think most Mac users use Safari, according to my experience (I'm working with Apple stuff). But your mileage may vary, usually Apple users tend to use the defaults.
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Funny, I thought IE stopped being modern around IE4 or earlier, lol.
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At my work I know 14 Mac users (including myself) and 13 of them use Firefox and I use Opera.
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As for this whole “modern” thing, I can’t help but feel skeptical of a lot of HTML5. Okay, there are some good things.
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HTML5 seems very focused on adding "cool new features", and not so much on analyzing the current problems and shortcomings of previous standards and improving on that.
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A lot of them are pretty helpful. A lot of them are not HTML5 at all but people think they are.
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Both companies were championing new elements, as browser vendors still do today. However, Microsoft made sure their browser only worked with their products while Netscape's browser was made to work on all platforms.
When I worked at Silicon Graphics, I regularly ate lunch with Jim Clark, the president, who later founded Netscape. Internet Explorer is based on Mosaic out of the University of Illinois. The guy who wrote it, Marc Andreesen, left and wrote all new code for his new browser...Netscape. When Charlie Rose asked him why he didn't just re-use the Mosaic code, he said, "Cause it's terrible!". |
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It's remarkable how many people don't realize that the Netscape browser is an ancestor of Firefox.
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