E&A post
about the comatose state of IE's evolution at Microsoft. I've been thinking
about posting on the very same topic - I see I'm not the only one feeling this
way. This, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly the problem with monopolies.
Microsoft now dominates the browser market, and have little reason to innovate.
I'm looking for an excuse to switch off of IE, but I haven't found it yet. I
continue to evaluate Mozilla from time to
time, but I still find it too piggy. And I still like IE's ability to run
multiple instances of the browser process (maybe there's a way to do this
in Moz but I haven't found it). Firebird
has potential, as it seems design address the bloat factor of Mozilla. I'll be
keeping an eye on it.
A completely revamped Favorites system (the file
system/shortcut-based model SUCKS - Netscape had a better system in 1.0,
for God's sake), popup killing, full support for the DOM APIs (including
events), better developer
tools in the browser (ala Mozilla) - these are the things I
would kill for.
Oh yeah, and fixing
that stupid bug that causes new browser windows to take an eternity to launch if
you have multiple IE windows open. Geez, that bugs me.