Google's Microsoft-esque landgrab for IE's market share

Re:Google's Microsoft-esque landgrab for IE's market share by jballanc on Sunday January 04, 2009 @06:27PM (#419696)

How can the author claim Firefox is Google's ally? Does he not realize that Chrome is a WebKit browser? Is he completely unaware of the recent TraceMonkey vs. SquirelFish Extreme vs. V8 battle?

All Google is doing is telling its users like it is...There's a lot of advancement in the world of browsers, and Microsoft's not a part of it!

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Re:Google's Microsoft-esque landgrab for IE's market share by andreyf on Sunday January 04, 2009 @06:58PM (#419738)

Fast JavaScript VM's are Google's ally. In the long run, TraceMonkey, SquirelFish Extreme, and V8 are all money-makers for Google. IE7 and Microsoft's slow JS engine is not.

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Re:Google's Microsoft-esque landgrab for IE's market share by zmimon on Sunday January 04, 2009 @09:14PM (#419872)

> There's a lot of advancement in the world of browsers, and Microsoft's not a part of it!

Umm.... the benchmarks I've seen of IE8 show substantial (order of magnitude) improvements in javascript speed. They are still behind, but we should be able to count on a big increase in javascript speed across the board in the next couple of years.

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Re:Google's Microsoft-esque landgrab for IE's market share by jballanc on Monday January 05, 2009 @03:19AM (#420157)

...and Detroit automakers are making more efficient cars today then they did a decade ago. What's your point?

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Re:Google's Microsoft-esque landgrab for IE's market share by waratuman on Sunday January 04, 2009 @09:27PM (#419889)

True, but they are still behind.

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Re:Google's Microsoft-esque landgrab for IE's market share by rudyfink on Sunday January 04, 2009 @06:29PM (#419701)

The enemy of my enemy is my friend/ally?

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