Nothing like writing a followup to a post from last year.
Looks like I rankled a few people's nerves. I have to admit I'm always impressed when people not from MS defend IE. It's sorta like poking yourself in the eye, and then explaining to someone that you actually like doing it. The folks at MS get paid to talk up IE at least.
Well, IE8 has come (and gone), and with not a bang but with a lame whisper, it seems that people would rather down a bottle of Drano than bother to install IE8. What a surprise.
Even with all that pseudo-useful, snide and developers-know-better-than-users mentality that littered the comments of the IE dev team's blog, it seemed that everybody completely, totally and utterly missed the point of having a new IE release.
And, what's this? Rumours of Microsoft dumping the Trident engine? You don't say. (Find the links yourself, kiddies). My oh my, how prescient on my part.
We could hope for MS using Gecko as the new rendering engine for the next version of IE. Oh, and compatibility with Firefox extensions.
But for my next trick, I'll say that MS will instead buy a small company that three other people have heard of. This company's product will be a HTML rendering engine. And that will be Trident's replacement. And it will be called Dentyne.