There's one book by Terry Pratchett that has a nice explanation for this phenomenon, called the "Trousers of Time".
It states that time travel works like travelling in a pair of trousers. You start at the end of one leg (the present) and then, when you go back in time, you go upwards. If you then, at the top, kill your father and get back to the present, you don't end up in the leg you came from but in the other one.
It's all about parallel and branching universes but it's a nice way to explain it;o)
charon
Now, tell me, what difference will this actually make? Except for all the website developers being happy to get yet another browser on their compatibility list, who is going to download and use it? Somehow I can't believe that the 80something percent (yeah, sure, depending on the site we're talking about) are going to miraculously switch to IE7 so that all our problems as webdesigners suddenly go away. IE7 may be a good product, it may really be a very good product (and with all the competition that MS is facing right now I'd be really surprised if they didn't produce something fairly good) but it won't make up for all the crap MS has thrown at us with the last versions of their browser. charon
Hey, come on, that's the best thing MS could do, apparently staying within the limits the EU set them, breaking things and then saying "hey, we told you it would suck".
Have you ever seen so many comments on/. indicating that the EU is wrong and MS did the right thing? Or that they couldn't do any better? Who'd have thought that!
All that's just a huge publicity fight with at least one side succeeding in twisting things to their liking so they look good in the news.
charon
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There's one book by Terry Pratchett that has a nice explanation for this phenomenon, called the "Trousers of Time". ;o)
It states that time travel works like travelling in a pair of trousers. You start at the end of one leg (the present) and then, when you go back in time, you go upwards. If you then, at the top, kill your father and get back to the present, you don't end up in the leg you came from but in the other one.
It's all about parallel and branching universes but it's a nice way to explain it
charon
Now, tell me, what difference will this actually make? Except for all the website developers being happy to get yet another browser on their compatibility list, who is going to download and use it?
Somehow I can't believe that the 80something percent (yeah, sure, depending on the site we're talking about) are going to miraculously switch to IE7 so that all our problems as webdesigners suddenly go away.
IE7 may be a good product, it may really be a very good product (and with all the competition that MS is facing right now I'd be really surprised if they didn't produce something fairly good) but it won't make up for all the crap MS has thrown at us with the last versions of their browser.
charon
Hey, I'm European and I don't think that this decision makes much sense...
Hey, come on, that's the best thing MS could do, apparently staying within the limits the EU set them, breaking things and then saying "hey, we told you it would suck". Have you ever seen so many comments on /. indicating that the EU is wrong and MS did the right thing? Or that they couldn't do any better? Who'd have thought that!
All that's just a huge publicity fight with at least one side succeeding in twisting things to their liking so they look good in the news.
charon