i.justrealized

That’s really odd statement, considering the fact that it originates from Microsoft.

The student put Ballmer on the hot seat by asking, “Why is IE still relevant and why is it worth spending money on rendering engines when there are open source ones available that can respond to changes in Web standards faster?”

“There will still be a lot of proprietary innovation in the browser itself so we may need to have a rendering service,” Ballmer said, adding, “Open source is interesting. Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8.” (Source: AppleInsider)

Possibly related:

1. Google launching new browser – Google Chrome
2. Steve Ballmer in Windows 1.0 commercial
3. FW: Police Warning… don’t delete… pass it on
4. Critical IE vulnerability found, browser switch recommended

This entry was posted on Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm and has been tagged microsoft, renderer, webkit. Comments RSS feed.