Should Microsoft Switch To WebKit?

DeviceGuru writes "Although IE remains the one of the top browsers on desktops, it's being trounced on tablets and smartphones by browsers based on WebKit, including Safari, the Android Browser, and Google Chrome. Faced with this uphill battle on handheld mobile devices, Microsoft MVP Bill Reiss has suggested that it might be time for Microsoft to throw in the towel on Trident and switch to WebKit (though Reiss later decided he was wrong). But although there are lots of points in favor of doing so, there are also some good reasons not to, including security and a need for healthy competition to avoid having mobile developers begin to target WebKit rather than standards."

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Microsoft != a healthy competition

[G3ckoG33k]

Microsoft most likely won't provide "healthy competition". History has shown that they are on the same low level as Apple when it comes to competetion.

Don't fool yourselves.

Re:Arguments of convenience

[Plumpaquatsch]

Google for one, which was the reason for the GMaps on Windows Phone brouhaha a few days ago.

False, Google didn't "only target Webkit", they claimed that GMaps a) was optimized for Webkit (which probably is true) and that b) they blocked Windows Phone users claiming that it wouldn't work (which was provably wrong).