---- Ryan Bowman
'You must join me, Obi-wan, and together we will destroy the Sith!' - Count Dooku
'And you, younk Skywalker, we will watch your career with great interest.' - Supreme Chancellor Palpitine ----
From: Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uug] browsers and standards Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 14:32:21 -0600
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:27, Hyrum Wright wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:33, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> <snip>
> > then MS will have to finally update IE (which hasn't changed much in the
> > past few years, if you haven't noticed).
>
> I disagree. They are always releasing "security updates", at least once
> a week or so. :)
Actually, because of MS integrating IE into the OS, and discontinuing it as a standalone product, expect new features and innovation to pretty much stop in IE. Because it's no longer standalone, we have to wait until new versions of Windows to get any major features. Since the majority of the world (dispite MS's efforts) continues to run 98 (and now XP -- who is going to change from that in the next 3 years?), we're stuck with IE 6.0 for several years at least. I expect that lame plugins in the form of flash etc are going to be introduced by venders to pick up the slack. While this is bad news generally for the web, it provides Mozilla with an unprecedented opportunity to not only win the browser war, but to really innovate and become the leader in web technologies. Since it is a standalone application, it is in a possition to be really innovative.
The downside to all this that we can't expect any mass adoptation of CSS3 or any of the other cool technologies for years and years, since IE 7 won't be available until longhorn (at least a year away if not more), and since most web developers will target IE 6. Kind of sad.
Michael
Michael
> > -Hyrum > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
_________________________________________________________________
Instant message in style with MSN Messenger 6.0. Download it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.com
____________________
BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________
List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
