On the train ride home Friday Kevin Carter and I were talking and complaining about good ol Microsoft. We talked how it would be great if Microsoft just quit making a browser. The next day he sent me this article. I was pretty surprised that what we were talking about on the train might become partly true. Infoworld mentions that it is quite possible that IE8 will be the last IE. That doesn’t mean that Microsoft will quit making a browser. They will just create a new browser not running on the IE engine. That would be awesome to not have the IE engine around anymore. Anyways check out the article for yourself and let us know what you think.
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I don’t mind IE7 or IE8 (having been trying out the beta for a while), but I’m ecstatic of any news that hints toward the eventual demise of IE6. Seriously, IE6 is starting to become the Netscape 4 of today :)
Personally, I would be as happy as if I would graduate.
Well, maybe this will help put some nails in the coffin:
http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4152.html
Chad pointed this one out this morning. In a nutshell, right as the MS honchos in charge of IE8 were giving a speech at the launch about how awesome IE8 security is, at another conference, someone was accepting an award for having hacked IE8 already. The article also shows that Safari on a Mac isn’t immune either.
Competition is good, because it drives forward movement, but eventually survival of the fittest kicks in, and the lamest members of the group drop out. Its time for IE to move out of the way and let the real browsers show people what the web is really supposed to be like.