Out black spot … er … IE7
Don Park, of whom Dave Winer has said “He knows what he’s talking about”, believes Microsoft should scrap IE7. Reason? It has a long list of legacy problems.
His solution :
1. Let it just rot and, instead, build a new browser that taps .NET 2.0’s full potential.
2. ActiveX? Leave it behind.
3.Netscape Plugins compatibilty? AJAX? Out with them.
In a comment on his post he elaborates :
HTML is just another content type while the browser can be far more than just an HTML viewer. At the platform-level, built-in support for sessions, local storage/database, fine-grained caching, identities, directories, user-level zoning, graphics engine, and others could make new breed of web applications possible. Security-wise, what about running “virtual machines” as a “page” that can be accessed with a simple hyperlink? What if virtual machines can be “stacked” together like slabs of concretes, each tamperproof, to be used as “platform” for rich web applications?
Does the man have a point?
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