DISQUS

veridicus · 3 years ago

IE's been slowly losing market share. Of course being the default browser means it'll retain top share for a long time. Hopefully our "edge cases", as you put it, keep putting enough pressure for them to conform to standards. In the end that comes back around to help everyone. I want Microsoft to disappear today, but with that being impossible we need to consider compromises.

Rob Hyndman · 3 years ago

Thoughts from Nick Bradbury on Exploder 7:

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2006/02/feedback_o...

Mathew · 3 years ago

Veridicus:

I hope you're right, and that eventually the "edge" will feed back into the center to help it evolve. As Robert Scoble said when someone called him an "edge case," even Doug Englebart -- the inventor of the mouse -- was an edge case at one point :-)

Rob:

Thanks for the link. Nick is a smart guy, and I like FeedDemon a lot. I'm glad he stayed away from the "us vs. them" thing in talking about IE7. I think some of his comments are right on, particularly concerning the use of a user's feed data, and the placement of the navigation buttons (the "blue boobs)." The latter wouldn't matter so much if I could use mouse gestures to go back and forth like I do with Firefox -- which just shows how used we've gotten to Firefox's adaptability.