Comments on: In praise of Internet Explorer 6

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:42:09 +0000

I said

“It’s impossible to imagine a world now in which developers proudly browser-sniff to check that the customer is using the “right” browser on the “right” operating system, while they race to code applications that revolve around non-standard “extensions” thereby locking themselves and their users to one browser because it temporarily has the shiniest proprietary extras. .. The old days eh? Who’d go back there?”

Not me!

As I said in the Opera developer relations announcement today: ” Keep coding to the standards, not to individual rendering engines; test across browsers – Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer; use all vendor prefixes and an unprefixed form in your CSS and JavaScript.”

By: ledahulevogyre

ledahulevogyre — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:50:35 +0000

Trolling apart, I’m really eager to read Bruce’s (new?) opinion on this. I often consider his opinions as very insightful.
There seem to be a huge contradiction here, but maybe I miss some points.

I’ve always had mixed feelings about open-source monoculture. I tend to see it as positive, but a lot of people say competition is the only way to innovation.

By: Jordan Moore

Jordan Moore — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:28:47 +0000

Great contribution ledahulevogyre. Not trolly in the slightest.

By: ledahulevogyre

ledahulevogyre — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:10:34 +0000

> The old days eh? Who’d go back there?

Opera

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