Apparently Steve Ballmer has publicly stated that Microsoft plans to look into Webkit… that’s news to me! Microsoft’s browser needs to support modern web standards: HTML4, XHTML, CSS, SVG and as much HTML5 as is ready for deployment.
But Microsoft has also publicly been “looking into” SVG for years and years, so I’m not going to hold my breath.
These days, Internet Explorer is the last browser I look at… as long as all my textual content is actually visible, then that’s just fine by me.
Anyone have any idea why I’m suddenly seeing a large number of hits using a browser with the following UA string:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Only happened in the last few days too. Weird.
The last two years have been explosive for WebKit development – the project has really accelerated, moving at a much faster perceivable rate than the other notable open-source web platform, Mozilla. I’ve been noticing more and more innovations that affect web developers from the Safari blog. Read the rest of this entry …