magicalclick said:magicalclick said:*snip*I think I see the arguments here. Does competition push standard because competition push innovations? Well, I guess it does. I mean ATI pushs a lot of its innovation to DX11 specifications. It would be the same as Google/Apple/Other Companies would want to push some standard features to WebKit. And obviously it is a 2nd party experience. Meaning the standard commity is still running the show. So to say MS building IE in house has the 1st party edge over pushing new features out to its browser.
But from the way I see it, HTML is getting closer to old technology like coding in Machine Code, micro programming. It is way too low level. Let someone else to do it. The browser should only care higher level user experience, not the low level structures. Just like the eairly days, you get different instruction set to work with, then C comes out. Then, everyone moves onto higher level programming. The HTML standard and rendering is so 90s. The new age is higher level, like cleaner browsing experience, spell check, download manager, safty (no running virus even if user wants to), and so on.
I see a trend that WebKit will be the future, mainly because it is open source, light, and free. Many mobile browsers are using it. Not only more and more web developers adopting WebKit's rendering style, but more and more web browsers using it on different devices. The whole developer community is shifting towards it, and "Developer Developer Developer" is MS main focus. I believe either making a WebKit like open source rendering engine or using WebKit is the best way to stay competitive. Because as of now, IE is fighting the entire alience of browsers by itself.
Yes guys, Blu Ray vs HDDVD - we all benefit from competing "standards". There is no point to open-source IE as there is lots of legacy code from the 90s in there and no sane person would want to develop that when you have got so many alternatives. Instead scrap the entire thing and go with whatever is the most technologically advanced web rendering engine at a given point in time.
