http://www.asnorwood.com/2008/01/26/ie8s-faustian-bargain/ An artist and designer in Austin, Texas. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:21:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.asnorwood.com/2008/01/26/ie8s-faustian-bargain/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Adam Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:26:08 +0000 http://www.asnorwood.com/2008/01/26/ie8s-faustian-bargain/#comment-10 Thanks for the insight, David. I'm very much on the sidelines in this kind of thing, and had a hard time keeping track of who was actually participating in these discussions with Microsoft (presumably behind closed doors). It's encouraging that the other browser vendors aren't acquiescing. The more I think about the idea, the more incomprehensible it gets. Thanks for the insight, David. I’m very much on the sidelines in this kind of thing, and had a hard time keeping track of who was actually participating in these discussions with Microsoft (presumably behind closed doors). It’s encouraging that the other browser vendors aren’t acquiescing. The more I think about the idea, the more incomprehensible it gets.

]]> http://www.asnorwood.com/2008/01/26/ie8s-faustian-bargain/comment-page-1/#comment-9 David Storey Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:32:18 +0000 http://www.asnorwood.com/2008/01/26/ie8s-faustian-bargain/#comment-9 "The IE team has worked out a deal with some of the major players in the web standards scene and representatives of the browser makers to introduce a new tag allowing developers to target specific browser implementations. " Let me just make it clear that IE did not work out a deal with other browser vendors. Even though it was proposed that other browsers follow IE's lead, we were all as much in the dark as everyone else. We (Opera), Firefox and Safari will not implement this. It would be impossible to compete if we did. We could forget about browsers like Opera Mini for a start, and as the primary way people get our browser is via downloading it, the file size would become prohibitory large. “The IE team has worked out a deal with some of the major players in the web standards scene and representatives of the browser makers to introduce a new tag allowing developers to target specific browser implementations. ” Let me just make it clear that IE did not work out a deal with other browser vendors. Even though it was proposed that other browsers follow IE’s lead, we were all as much in the dark as everyone else. We (Opera), Firefox and Safari will not implement this. It would be impossible to compete if we did. We could forget about browsers like Opera Mini for a start, and as the primary way people get our browser is via downloading it, the file size would become prohibitory large.

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