Yesterday, while walking from launch, my freind Amnon David (the creator of jNext) told me that IE8 doesn’t work on hotmail.com.
Since IE8 release gained lots of credit by JavaScript Hackers (John Resig and many more), therefore, I couldn’t believe it until I saw it in my own eyes.
Plain and simple, the site is broken. Icons, [...]
Comparing to Microsoft aggressiveness, I was wondering whether Apple is just passive aggressive?
Both companies are making money selling proprietary, closed-source software (and hardware) . Perhaps Apple just dose it more gently with a wider smile on the face. That is all.
Even getting a legal copy of OS x runs on a virtual machine is almost [...]
Microsoft interoperability announcement is a significant switch and a remarkable milestone onto the way to make the world of software an open, standardized and perhaps free as well. Especially regarding the IE8 default behavior.
Read more at:
http://ejohn.org/blog/unbreaking-the-web/
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/interoperability/default.mspx
I have said in the past that IE would eventually become an open source browser and so it would. I [...]
