IE, Mozilla, and the Future
Microsoft has now announced that there will be no new stand-alone versions of IE and that the next update will be bundled with the next OS: “Longhorn”.
Understandably, this was both a fairly low-key announcement and has also caused quite a stir in the web development community. Zeldman has a great overview that explains why this is such an important issue. There’s also a very good discussion going on over at web-graphics in the comments. Dave, of mezzoblue, suggests that instead of a massive campaign reminicent of the Browser Upgrade Campaign, we should instead essentially ramp up for a huge marketing effort. I tend to agree with Dave’s assessment and hope that something about this genuinely gets started. I know I’ll certainly support it however I can.
In the meantime people, try upgrading to a browser that works better than IE.
Posted Monday June 2, 2003 in Web Development by Chris Curtis
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