- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 20:15:36 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: > > ... > > The browser the largest market share is already deployed; its behaviour > > can't be changed. The next version of the browser with the largest market > > share has no market share. That's one of the reasons Microsoft developed > > their new <meta> tag that requires pages to opt-in to particular sets of > > bugs -- they want to guarentee that when they release IE8, it can render > > exactly everything that IE7 can render. If IE8 had different behaviour than > > IE7, then people wouldn't adopt it. > > ... > > Following that reasoning, people wouldn't adopt IE7 instead of IE6. But > they do. May be not as many and as happily as Microsoft would like, but > they do. So few people have adopted IE7 instead of IE6 (as opposed to other browsers instead of IE6, or even more commonly, just staying with IE6), and at such a slow rate, that Microsoft have decided to both make IE7 a required security update _and_ make IE8 ship with IE7's renderer, and use that renderer by default. And that's with just the minor mistakes in IE7; if browsers did what was proposed earlier in this thread, one can easily predict the situation would be much worse (from Microsoft's perspective). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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