Comments on: The march past 50 million! http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/ Jonathan Stanley's little corner on the Internet where he muses on life, phpBB (PHP Bulletin Board), (X)HTML, CSS, Web Standards, Science, Technology and whatever miscellaneous stuff that takes his fancy. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:07:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=X.Y-svn-lambcutlet Comment on The march past 50 million! by: Jonathan Stanley http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-127 Thu, 05 May 2005 19:01:23 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-127 /me forgets he has to moderate comments when there are links... Anyway, Domink... I know, <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1543601#1543601">I said so a week earlier already</a>. ;) /me forgets he has to moderate comments when there are links…

Anyway, Domink… I know, I said so a week earlier already. ;)

]]> Comment on The march past 50 million! by: Jonathan Stanley http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-120 Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:52:25 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-120 Actually, my own hunch with what Microsoft will do with IE7 is they'll probably try and push XAML and "replace" HTML as far as web authoring goes. It's not all bad considering it is XML, admittedly very verbose XML that looks like HTML4 era tag-soup. Opensource isn't doomed if that is the case as Mozilla's XUL plus a scripting language that's appropiate could work just as well. I think in theory anyway some people have talked of a pure XML web application and client-side XSL transform as required. Guess we'll just have to wait and see what IE7 beta actually does do when oit's released this summer... though as far as it's HTML and CSS handling improvements are concerned, short of them fixing it to pass the <a href="http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/">Acid2 test</a> and probably at least get parity with whatever browser Apple/Mozilla/Opera/KDE ship by then, I think MS's new browser is irrelevant. Actually, my own hunch with what Microsoft will do with IE7 is they’ll probably try and push XAML and “replace” HTML as far as web authoring goes. It’s not all bad considering it is XML, admittedly very verbose XML that looks like HTML4 era tag-soup.

Opensource isn’t doomed if that is the case as Mozilla’s XUL plus a scripting language that’s appropiate could work just as well. I think in theory anyway some people have talked of a pure XML web application and client-side XSL transform as required.

Guess we’ll just have to wait and see what IE7 beta actually does do when oit’s released this summer… though as far as it’s HTML and CSS handling improvements are concerned, short of them fixing it to pass the Acid2 test and probably at least get parity with whatever browser Apple/Mozilla/Opera/KDE ship by then, I think MS’s new browser is irrelevant.

]]> Comment on The march past 50 million! by: JustinSL http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-119 Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:43:00 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-119 Maybe this might force Microsoft to make Internet Explorer 7 (or maybe 8 if time is a problem for them) a super-duper awesome browser, essentially ramming FireFox head-on (and possibly make them choke to death like old Netscape in the late 90s). Maybe this might force Microsoft to make Internet Explorer 7 (or maybe 8 if time is a problem for them) a super-duper awesome browser, essentially ramming FireFox head-on (and possibly make them choke to death like old Netscape in the late 90s).

]]> Comment on The march past 50 million! by: Dominik http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-118 Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:03:04 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-118 Jon, you are going to like <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/chase/archives/008032.html">this</a>. Jon, you are going to like this.

]]> Comment on The march past 50 million! by: Jonathan Stanley http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-117 Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:56:48 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-117 Some would say Netscape died when it was sold to AOL... though what I would say to developers if that sitting on your laurels will be the death of you. My reaction on this whole Internet Explorer 7 announcement from Microsoft and that it'll fix some CSS1 and CSS2 things was "So what? Welcome to 2000!". :D Conversely, now that Firefox has made such huge gains is for it to push the envelope even further... them outstanding bugs in it's Buzilla would be a good start though I'm sure (hope) there are other secret weapons, or at least cunning plans too! Some would say Netscape died when it was sold to AOL… though what I would say to developers if that sitting on your laurels will be the death of you.

My reaction on this whole Internet Explorer 7 announcement from Microsoft and that it’ll fix some CSS1 and CSS2 things was “So what? Welcome to 2000!”. :D

Conversely, now that Firefox has made such huge gains is for it to push the envelope even further… them outstanding bugs in it’s Buzilla would be a good start though I’m sure (hope) there are other secret weapons, or at least cunning plans too!

]]> Comment on The march past 50 million! by: Justin http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-116 Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:44:20 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/04/29/the-march-past-50-million/#comment-116 I guess Netscape is rising from the dead in a peculiar way. I guess Netscape is rising from the dead in a peculiar way.

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