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Microsoft Finally Joins HTML 5 Standard Efforts
bonch writes "On Friday, Microsoft posted to a mailing list that IE developers are reviewing the HTML 5 standard for future versions of Internet Explorer. They've given some feedback on the current editor's draft, saying that they 'have more questions than answers' and criticizing many of HTML 5's new tags, like <header>, <footer> and <aside>, calling them 'arbitrary' or unnecessary. It remains to be seen whether Microsoft waited too long to try to influence basic parts of the spec that most of their competitors have already adopted."
And MS does NOT play nice. Ever.
So while you might hope for a consistent experience MS has its own agenda. Burn this into your brain. MS NEVER PLAYS NICE.
Remember that story about MS donating code to linux under the GPL? Oh how nice they were, how they had turned around, how this was a new beginning.
Oops, no. Turns out that MS had used GPL code and they had to release their mods to stay compliant with the GPL. The fact that they tried to pretend they had different motives, makes everything they did questionable. So they did NOT release the code to improve interoperability, so what were there real motives for using GPL in the first place? (MS is more then capable enough to avoid using GPL code).
So, I ask myself what are MS real motives here? To improve HTML 5.0? Get clear exactly what they should implement? Nah. Delay? Possible. Make it less potent, possible. The point is, I do not know, but I do know from experience that whatever MS intrests are, working together for a greater future can't possible be it.
If MS is involved with HTML 5 then there are really only two options.
A: they realized that by staying out of it, even they risk loosing.
B: they hope by getting involved they can delay it until they can either make it their own somehow, someway, or just delay it for the sake of delay and hope it dies or that silverlight will have changed the web.
But whatever their reason, it ain't: lets make a better product for the future that everyone can use. It ain't the MS way. Never has, never will be.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Ask anyone who is in web publishing business. You can't replace Flash just by putting some fancy tags and video tag which doesn't have h264 just because of political, fanatical reasons.
If MS thinks they will hit flash that way, they are dreaming. No matter what nerds think, Adobe or Flash isn't going anywhere especially if their rival wannabe is idiot enough to drop PPC support on OS X and provide no kind of design/develop support on OS X. Eclipse/Mono? Yea, right.
Microsoft would be more likely to use WebKit than Gecko. Not only is WebKit clearly the superior engine, but much of it is licensed under the BSD license while Gecko is GPL.
Yes, and KHTML was completely irrelevant until Apple took it over and turned it into a usable rendering engine. WebKit is what everybody is using, not KHTML. Even KDE is.