Microsoft Rumored to Kill Off Internet Explorer
March 13, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Rumors
I don’t really care if Microsoft decides to drop Internet Explorer or not. As a frustrated web designer, all I ask is that the company make future browsers even more compliant with the standards established by the W3C.
The legacy of Microsoft continues to be Internet Explorer 6. The widely-used browser continues to cause nightmares for both web developers and visitors alike. The former needed to take special, arbitrary steps to make their creations work properly, while the latter discovered the dangers of the online world through IE6’s security flaws.
Because of this legacy, Microsoft’s dropping of (or at least stopping support for) IE6 has some wide-reaching consequences. As The Inquirer opines:
[Microsoft] has a few other problems if it wants to kill off IE. The first is the awful lot of investment some outfits have put into Active X. The other is that too much of the Web was tweaked to handle IE 6 and there would be some difficult HTML problems for any new browser.
So if the rumor is true, good luck Microsoft!
