Rapid Browser Development Challenges Web Developers

Esther Schindler writes "Feeling a little overwhelmed by changing web standards and new browser choices? You aren't the only one. Mozilla is launching development tracks for the next two editions of its Firefox Web browser immediately, with hopes to push both into general release before the end of the year. This while Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 10 on the heels of its IE9 release, and Google projects Chrome 13 just one year after Chrome 7. Meanwhile, HTML5, the next version of the Web's primary language, appears to have entered a permanent gestation phase. Writes Scott Fulton: All the confusion has prompted Web developers to ask this question: What do we develop our sites against now?"

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I have a challenge for web developers

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Stop making links open new tabs. Let me decide when to use a tab and when I want it to just be a back-button away!

( Sorry, I admit I didn't really have anything productive to add to this particular discussion. )

IE always broken.

[Tei]

The weaken chain is IE. That is broken is always innovating in new ways a browser can be broken. So even if everyone else invent fast than light travel, you still have to code your webpages to support IE, so you have to write the page with elegant code, then convert your code in a braindead and demonic mix of patched to make it work for IE.

IE, all versions, is a piece of shit.