> Far too long, and his point is buried somewhere... It is long, but I like the headphone analogy that (I think) makes it easier to understand the 'economics' of the situation. (Does it count as economics when the products are free?)
I was very surprised by the IE teams decision to make the new rendering the default, until I read Joel's thoughts on what they might do before release. IE is part of the MS ecosystem, and impacts Windows (e.g. will a corporate client update to Vista if their intranet doesn't work with IE 7/8), and things like Sharepoint (e.g. will IE8 render Sharepoint sites ok). On the Sharepoint note, either MS will have to re-do how it produces front end code (a mammoth undertaking) or ensure that IE8 renders it as IE7. How useful is that long term? I'm very glad that MS started again with the rendering engine, and they have made incredible progress given that fresh start, but I do worry that it could have nasty consequences for IE (and web standards) if the change to other parts of the ecosystem is too severe. -Alastair ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
