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Internet Explorer 10 is a fast browser with good standards compliance, and the version of Internet Explorer 10 included with Windows Phone 8 is no exception, as it's almost identical to its desktop sibling. But Internet Explorer 10 has a problem: Web developers don't expect to see it on the mobile Web. The mobile Web is dominated by WebKit-based browsers, and mobile sites tend to be developed exclusively for, and tested exclusively on, WebKit browsers. A similar problem exists for tablets. Proprietary WebKit features are actually holding back the open web.
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meanwhile Internet Explorer is holding back 3D on the web (I mean no support for WebGL)
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Proprietary WebKit features are actually holding back the open web
And IE holds back whatever else is remaining. Not to mention that IE owned the term "Proprietary browser feature".
The HTML "standard" is whatever the majority of browser manufactures agree on. WebKit is simply more consistent a platform to develop. Every single IE release since IE4 has meant a scramble to update the workarounds for the quirks de jour the IE team added.
Each release has, admittedly, been getting better, but why not just move to the WebKit engine and innovate on things that matter, like matching and beating Chrome's dev tools, or having the fastest Javascript engine, or making the inbuilt HTML good enough that the Outlook team ditches Word as its HTML renderer and uses IE so we can have our HTML emails actually render properly.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: or making the inbuilt HTML good enough that the Outlook team ditches Word as its HTML renderer and uses IE so we can have our HTML emails actually render properly.
That's probably a 10 year battle minimum. In the office team's shoes adding all of IE's exploit targeting to Outlook would be extremely high on my list of things never to do.
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I doubt IE's issues are any worse than Office's issues. Using Word instead of IE is because composing emails in Word is a better experience than composing them in IE. Which is kinda ironic since viewing emails in Word is a far worse experience than viewing them in IE.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I doubt IE's issues are any worse than Office's issues.
They might not be any worse; but they are AFAIK much more readily exploited. You here about IE exploits all the time; when's the last time you heard about a virus that spread by exploiting outlook's renderer.
Chris Maunder wrote: Using Word instead of IE is because composing emails in Word is a better experience than composing them in IE.
I suspect the fact that Doc/Docx and WordHtml map to each other roughly 1:1 is also a factor; if they added an html5 mode that supported all the new and shiney they'd need to figure out how to convert each and every one of those features into a word representation so your formatting survived mostly intact when you toggle the html/richtext modes. Word in the browser might get us there eventually. Assuming they don't keep it crippled to protect desktop office sales anyway.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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