Translation From MS-Speak to English of the “Native HTML5″ announcement

Re:Translation From MS-Speak to English of the “Native HTML5... by jonah on Saturday April 16, 2011 @01:37AM (#2453289)

I don't see you as guilty necessarily, especially as a relatively new member of the team. Your point about the complex and nasty legacy stuff you have to deal with is good too.

From my perspective, the IE team's priorities are weird. That's all. Yes, the race for performance is super-important as we're pushing our browsers to do more and more but if IE can't DO the same things other browsers do I don't really care how fast it can not do them. ;)

EDIT: grammar.

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Re:Translation From MS-Speak to English of the “Native HTML5... by willifred on Saturday April 16, 2011 @03:55AM (#2453508)

To me it makes perfect sense. For many people, web browsers have very little to differentiate them. Chrome's single major differentiator is that it's fast. If you asked the average person what's different about Chrome— they probably wouldn't care so much about the robustness of the html5 or css3 support— they'd say that it's fast.

Microsoft can attack on that front very aggressively. So they're taking the one thing that most people know is different or special about Chrome, and saying, 'IE is faster. Faster canvas, faster svg.' Seems like a great strategy to me.

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