I noticed a couple of links over at Scoble, a blogger I typically don’t care about. But to keep it on topic: he talks about his meetings with the IE team at Microsoft.
“Now, about the darn security fixes. These are tough. Tougher than it might seem on the outside. Why? Because Internet Explorer’s engine is used in several different OS’s. Dozens of different languages.”
So does Mozilla:
“Another thing that the commenters generally aren’t thinking of is “how to get adoption.” I keep pointing out that if we fixed the CSS and PNG issues, you still wouldn’t be able to use those for years. Why? Cause consumers (and companies) really don’t care about those issues and won’t download a new version just cause you fixed one or two issues.”
I have no clue what Scoble means. I seriously don’t. Next:
“Some days I totally understand what it’s like to be a campaign manager for a presidential candidate. You take the feedback from people and try to please everyone. Sometimes that job is impossible.”
Roadmap?
A couple of months ago I thought up loudly:
“it isn’t possible to support the new standards without redesigning the internal renderer of Explorer. ”
There is no browser war, but the race has been run and IE didn’t make the top 3. Think about it again and wonder what exactly Scoble’s goal was. To create interaction between the developers and users? Nah, we only hear how great the other Microsoft products are, the ones that build on and around Explorer technology.
“The conversation has started. Now it’ll be interesting to see where it goes.”
It’s only getting interesting if Microsoft decides to rebuild their browser engine. For now, I recommend using a real compatible browser: Mozilla, Opera or Konqueror (Safari, for MacHeads)