Richard Heyes wrote:
From a recent IEBlog post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/12/03/compatibility-view-improvements-to-come-in-ie8.aspx
...and our start on HTML5 support.
Does this mean canvas support?
Not in IE8.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/11/19/ie8-what-s-after-beta-2.aspx#9129600
Everyone has their favorite unstandardized feature they'd love IE to
support. (Personally I'd be delighted by -ms-border-radius and
content:uri() support.)
Experimental support for Canvas and other unstandardized features might
be a good thing; I know the spec editors would welcome implementor
feedback. It would be a shame, however, if we were locked into a
technically poor solution thanks to the most popular browser
implementing an early version of the specification, websites beginning
to rely on that behaviour, and subsequent versions of the specification
being forced to mandate such behaviour. I haven't used Canvas much, but
it seems to me there a lot of areas of Canvas where there's room for
further evolution, e.g. proper text width calculations? an accessible
Canvas example? what about 3D?
Is it as a direct result of Chrome
being released and MS realising (finally) they are going to have to
remain competitive?
Given Chrome's poor rate of take-up and tendency to canibalize the
userbases of non-MS browsers, I somewhat doubt it.
http://blog.statcounter.com/2008/09/chrome-whos-losing/
Regardless of Chrome's technical merits, it seems to me that it's
Firefox's growing userbase, tailed by the other popular browsers in some
markets, that has long represented the market challenge to IE.
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
Could be I'm underestimating the effects of press hype about chrome on
MS's strategy, but I think actually Microsoft's turn towards a stronger
emphasis on standards support long preceded the release of Chrome. For
example:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx
Given that IE8 was already in beta when Chrome was released, standard
support in IE8 is mostly a product of decisions taken before that time.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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