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IE Standardization Fading Fast
alphadogg writes "Just as Internet users in general have defected in huge numbers from Microsoft Internet Explorer over the past several years, the business world, as well, is becoming less dependent on the venerable browser. Companies that used to mandate the use of IE for access to web resources are beginning to embrace a far more heterodox attitude toward web browsers. While it hasn't gone away, the experience of having to use IE 6 to access some legacy in-house web app is becoming less common. 'A lot of it has to do with the emergence of the modern web and the popularity of mobile. They have made it very different for companies to truly standardize on a browser,' says Gartner Research analyst David Mitchell Smith."
Opera's entirely different.
Not for long: http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-webkit
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Query post works in IE, it's just that IE was written by retards and will actually do something no browser written by intelligent humans would ever do: cache Ajax POST calls. Yes, they actually treat POSTs like they are fucking idempotent calls. I shit you not. I assume this was in some misguided attempt to make up for the shitty performance of their browser. This caused a problem in a web app we wrote and it took a while to figure out because it never occurred to us that any browser could be this fucking stupid, but IE managed to exceed our expectations. jQuery has built in cache busting for ajax calls but it only works for GET calls, so we had to add in our own to resolve it.
I have not checked to see if this is something that has been resolved in recent iterations of IE (9 or 10).
Are agnostics skeptical of unicorns too?
JavaScript is insecure and violates privacy
Javascript is a language; it cannot violate your privacy. Security and privacy issues related to Javascript can only be application-specific issues which are introduced by the developers of said application. Javascript as a language is in no more violation of your privacy than C.
Apparently wizard is not a legitimate career path, so I chose programmer instead.
Here's some info showing the share of contributions
http://blog.bitergia.com/2013/02/06/report-on-the-activity-of-companies-in-the-webkit-project/
Watch those corners