microsoft following apple in adopting webkit?
by Chiyin on Nov 8th, 2008 @ 12:13 pmAppleinsider is reporting that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, said in a developers conference in Australia that they might consider adopting WebKit as the rendering engine for Internet Explorer. But looking at Microsoft’s history with it’s browser, when or if this will happen is any one’s guess.
As you may or may not know, WebKit is an open source framework on which a web browser can be developed. And many developers have chosen to use it as their foundation, examples are Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome, and many other mobile browsers. If Microsoft indeed chooses to adopt the framework as their next rendering engine it will usher in a new era of a more standardized web. And that is good news for us web developers.
As web developers, we spend a lot of extra time tinkering with tricks and techniques to make Internet Explorer do something other browsers can do natively. Just imagine if we didn’t have to do that. We could use that time to do more useful things, like having a beer or watching a movie. Or maybe, just maybe we could use the extra free time to bring more innovations to the field.
But for now this is all just some hopeful thinking…
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