An interesting chat with IE veteran Chris Wilson (downloadable MP3 or WMA).
IE should serve as an object lesson in monopolies; when it was competing with Netscape it was innovative and forward-thinking. When Netscape threw in the towel, Microsoft stopped development and the browser stagnated and caused many of the problems we have today. Since the rise of Firefox (and, to a lesser extent, Safari), IE have realised they have to start getting the community back onside by becoming innovative again — although, not with IE7, obviously; that was just a catch-up release.
IE7 was definitely a catch-up release. Unless Microsoft can get its act together soon. They are about to lose their precious market share not only with browsers, but with software (OS X, anyone?). Until then, i’ll be happy using Firefox + Mac.
cssProdigy [December 30th, 2008, 1:19 am]