responsibility only, which is to maximize return on investment. He has done this incredibly well.
I'm deeply worried that Microsoft is just going to make tabbed browsing add-on,
to put some "fire" out, and keep it's 12-year old engine.
From their point of view, following web standards is:
* expensive - to catch up they need lots of development and testing,
* risky - breaks delicate bug-based-"compatibility", and may introduce new bugs and security problems.
Keeping old engine: * is easy, costs nothing, * keeps IE "working with all websites", and keeps *competition* away.
They gain nothing from supporting CSS2/3, PNG or even XHTML mime type. Web developers *have to* cope with whatever IE supports.
"New! MS Tabs(tm)" and another "security" service pack will keep users happy...
-- regards, Kornel Lesiński
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