arstechnica.com— At the Mix'07 conference, Microsoft employees discussed the future for Internet Explorer and what might be expected from IE 8.
May 2, 2007View in Crawl 4
IE has had the ability for people to develop add-on features for ages.The skill level required is slightly higher than for Firefox.I think the issue is more that those who know what they are doing are using Firefox (or other non-IE browser), and so most people aren't that interested in developing for IE, except during the day job when someone else is paying for all the required tools.
Not true. Even if you count every person who has released a theme as a 'Firefox developer', Microsoft still has more people working on IE. Which I suppose makes it kinda sad - a bunch of paid professionals should be able to blow a smaller number of amateurs out of the water in terms of software quality. They haven't - who is going to get fired for that? (please let it be Ballmer!)
ikkebraMay 3, 2007
Has it been 10 years already?
mmmgoodMay 3, 2007
How about they just scrap their crappy code and use Webkit? That ought to save them a few bucks.
gnufanMay 3, 2007
IE has had the ability for people to develop add-on features for ages.The skill level required is slightly higher than for Firefox.I think the issue is more that those who know what they are doing are using Firefox (or other non-IE browser), and so most people aren't that interested in developing for IE, except during the day job when someone else is paying for all the required tools.
athomeboy2000May 4, 2007
FireFox 1.0 was launched Nov 9, 2004. SInce then, not only has it grown, it has grown beyond IE and now IE is catching up. How interesting....
chrisbarrMay 13, 2007
no, then that would encourage people to use IE, and we really don't want that.
carzorstelatisMay 26, 2007
Not true. Even if you count every person who has released a theme as a 'Firefox developer', Microsoft still has more people working on IE. Which I suppose makes it kinda sad - a bunch of paid professionals should be able to blow a smaller number of amateurs out of the water in terms of software quality. They haven't - who is going to get fired for that? (please let it be Ballmer!)