You know, I'm moderately baffled by why MS persists in maintaining IE at all - even IE 9 is considered "the problem child" by web devs trying to use shiny New Things.
Why DO MS persist in maintaining their own browser when they're manifestly not very good at it?
At the least, couldn't they make it easier all-round by following Google's example and base IE off Webkit? Better standards compliance, cheaper development, win-win surely?
Not a flame, I'm genuinely interested in why MS persist in (what seems to me to be) flogging the dead horse of Internet Explorer.
Because there are a _lot_ of internal business apps dependent on it.
Many large businesses wrote applications using ActiveX, and still use them 10 years later. MS have promised support for all components of Windows XP until 2014, and that includes IE6.
Why DO MS persist in maintaining their own browser when they're manifestly not very good at it?
At the least, couldn't they make it easier all-round by following Google's example and base IE off Webkit? Better standards compliance, cheaper development, win-win surely?
Not a flame, I'm genuinely interested in why MS persist in (what seems to me to be) flogging the dead horse of Internet Explorer.