“Robert Scoble mentions on his blog that he had a meeting with
the IE team and that they are solicitating feedback from the blog
community about what to include in the next update of the browser.
While particular features are nice, I’d like to suggest something
much more radical: Switch to Mozilla.“It may sound like heresy and would create quite some
controversy in the online space but let’s face it, the browser wars
are over. Since AOL decided to get our of the browser business, the
Mozilla foundation has successfully managed a transition and is now
moving forward on adding value to their offerings.“By adopting Mozilla as their core rendering engine, Microsoft
could achieve a number of quick wins: first of all, it would allow
it to adopt a number of new features that many users have
requested. Things like tabbed browsing, an expandable plug-in
architecture, a rendering language for the application layer (no
more XUL vs XAML discussions) would come out of the box…”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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