Comments on: IE Team Meddles in HTML5 http://darylteo.com/blog/2009/08/11/ie-team-meddles-in-html5/ Bits and blobs on anything tech Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:51:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sam http://darylteo.com/blog/2009/08/11/ie-team-meddles-in-html5/comment-page-1/#comment-11810 Sam Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:43:52 +0000 http://darylteo.com/blog/2009/08/11/ie-team-meddles-in-html5/#comment-11810 I think everyone else has enough clout now not to let Microsoft derail HTML5. And I don't think Microsoft are going to drop out or suspend browser development in the near future, given its renewed push into the web world. It is only a good thing that they're there, rather than not. Abandoning IE8 solves nothing really - like you said, these initiatives are fluid anyway; you will still likely have to do browser-dependent implementations. (IE6 on the other hand should really be put to sleep - I'm tempted to feed it the dumbed-down mobile version on my next site.) I hope they get HTML5 sorted out properly, without the huge holes in it that ODF had allowing Microsoft to 'drive a truck through it and break everything'. (Arguably, the only other reasonable choice they had for ODF was to not implement it for Excel.) That said, it would be nice if we didn't have to wait til 2022 for that - http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/HTML_5_Won_t_Be_Ready_Until_2022DOT_Yes__2022DOT HTML already mostly follows the lead provided by Flash and it'll only be further behind in the future with Silverlight/JavaFX and Google Gears/NC. I personally wish browsers would be more innovative and experiment more in the HTML arena - Safari was good start. I think everyone else has enough clout now not to let Microsoft derail HTML5. And I don’t think Microsoft are going to drop out or suspend browser development in the near future, given its renewed push into the web world. It is only a good thing that they’re there, rather than not. Abandoning IE8 solves nothing really – like you said, these initiatives are fluid anyway; you will still likely have to do browser-dependent implementations. (IE6 on the other hand should really be put to sleep – I’m tempted to feed it the dumbed-down mobile version on my next site.)

I hope they get HTML5 sorted out properly, without the huge holes in it that ODF had allowing Microsoft to ‘drive a truck through it and break everything’. (Arguably, the only other reasonable choice they had for ODF was to not implement it for Excel.)

That said, it would be nice if we didn’t have to wait til 2022 for that – http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/HTML_5_Won_t_Be_Ready_Until_2022DOT_Yes__2022DOT

HTML already mostly follows the lead provided by Flash and it’ll only be further behind in the future with Silverlight/JavaFX and Google Gears/NC. I personally wish browsers would be more innovative and experiment more in the HTML arena – Safari was good start.

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