Comments on: Microsoft’s Latest Web and Security Setbacks: A Summary http://techrights.org/2009/02/22/web-and-security-setbacks/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: NotZed http://techrights.org/2009/02/22/web-and-security-setbacks/comment-page-1/#comment-59896 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:24:36 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2009/02/22/web-and-security-setbacks/#comment-59896 “Microsoft continues to reinvent the wheel poorly because it implements its own rendering engine rather than decentralise the work like some other companies do (e.g. WebKit).”

I disagree. It’s just a rendering engine. Sure it might be a prick to get it perfect/etc, but if they have enough resources it can be solved – mozilla have their own, opera has its own. It’s not impossible.

It probably has more to do with a poor codebase (just a guess – lots of bugs and rushed to market) and trying to keep compatability with their existing buggy crap. They probably haven’t thrown that many engineers at it anyway – HTML5 competes quite favourably with silverlight for many uses. It’s probably more of a marketing `effort’ to convince people they’re actually committed to the net.

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