WebKit As Broken As Older IE Versions?

An anonymous reader writes "It's not everyday that we get to hear about the potential downsides of using WebKit, but that's just what has happened as Dave Methvin, president of the jQuery foundation and a member of the core programming team that builds the widely used Web programming tool, lamented in a blog post yesterday. While most are happy to cheer for IE's demise, perhaps having three main browser engines is still a good thing. For those that work in the space, does the story ring true? Are we perhaps swearing at the wrong browser when implementing 'workarounds' for Firefox or IE?"

Comments

Re:Except Internet Explorer Does not compete.

[hairyfeet]

How is it not replaceable? none of my customers, family, nor myself has IE on Windows as i uninstalled it and gave them their choice of Dragon or IceDragon. All that is left when you toss IE is the parts of the rendering engine used by HTML based help files that won't run without the IE engine but other than that little part its like IE never existed on our systems. And as others pointed out you no longer need crossover to run IE on Linux or mac, they have a pre-packed version you can easily run on those platforms and even do things a normal Windows user can't like run IE 7-9 beside themselves without later versions overwriting the previous one.

So by your own metrics it already qualifies just shows how little you've kept up with things. And quit harping about fricking XP okay? Does Debian still backport everything to Debian 1? Its a soon to be 12 year old OS that ends support next year so no shit they can't backport the latest and greatest IE as XP is just too damned old to make it worth all the trouble.