Internet Explorer is evil

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18 points·olalonde··10 comments

How is WP8 going to break the web? They have something like 2% of the market, which is hardly a monopoly that can be swing around.

Also, are the IE shenanigans news to anybody? There does seem to be a contingent of fresh-faced webdevs who think Microsoft's reputation for evil is overblown. It wasn't; they certainly did a lot earn it.

Unfortunately when a website is built with the requirement to support as many people as it can, even 2% will cause things which make incompatibilities to be taken off the table.

Didn't Apple make Safari/Webkit non-replaceable in iOS? Sure, we have "Chrome" on iOS but that's just Safari with a different skin..

Ps. I hate IE, and I'm an Apple user.

But other browsers can't take advantage of fast Javascript compiler like Safari can, or i'm i wrong? That's almost like Apple forbid all other browser.

Is there a particular reason for contributing this blog article, rather than just linking to the post itself [1]? It doesn't seem to add anything other than "read this comment".

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/ragecomics/comments/11c1t1/internet_...

Yes, I would recommend reading the source. There's more info in there.

Why now this article, when IE 9/10 finally works well (from web dev point of view)? Maybe it's just me, i'm not expert in html/css by far, but I must do tweaks for firefox and chrome equally like i do for IE. Or better, i don't do them very much in last year or so, browser standards works in all latest version today.

I wish I could downvote this "article".

Yawn... Comment on reddit fails to mention the part Netscape played in their own downfall... Ultimately MS were proved right, a browser is a core part of the OS

Luckily, that ship seems to have sailed.

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