{"id":508,"date":"2008-11-07T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/07\/the-start-of-something-good\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T16:58:14","slug":"the-start-of-something-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/07\/the-start-of-something-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The Start Of Something Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/microsoft.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>Apparently Steve Ballmer has publicly stated that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techworld.com.au\/article\/266449\/microsoft_interested_open_source_browser_ballmer\">Microsoft plans to look into Webkit<\/a>...  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.<\/p>\n<p>But Microsoft has also publicly been \"looking into\" <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\" title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26646919\/#element(content\/4\/3\/10)\">for<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.microsoft.com\/MSDN\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1015162&SiteID=1\" title=\"2006\">years<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/expertzone\/chats\/transcripts\/08_1016_ez_ie8.mspx#element(contentTableDIV\/175)\" title=\"2008\">years<\/a>, so I'm not going to hold my breath.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Steve Ballmer has publicly stated that Microsoft plans to look into Webkit&#8230; that&#8217;s news to me! Microsoft&#8217;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 &#8220;looking into&#8221; SVG for years and years, so I&#8217;m not going [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,46,11,28],"tags":[64,184,198,156],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software","category-svg","category-technology","category-web","tag-browser","tag-microsoft","tag-svg","tag-webkit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}