Hacker Newsnew | comments | ask | jobs | submitlogin TwoBit 390
days ago | link | parent  For a few years Internet Explorer had
a monopoly and lots of web sites became dependent on its bugs,
quirks, and extensions. A lot of corporations are still stuck
due to that.  just2n 390 days ago | link  It wasn't because of
the monopoly.  It was because IE had a HORRENDOUSLY SLOW
development cycle with minimal resources committed. It was
impossible to get all of those issues fixed in a timely manner.
If they can be fixed within a few months, it won't be 5+ years
of entrenching people in egregious bugs before a new version
comes out that breaks all of those if/elses in everyone's code.
We develop ONLY for Chrome. It (and WebKit especially) has bugs,
too, and we report them regularly. But the development cycle is
rapid enough that we can put a TODO in the code, file a bug
against it, and a few months later we actually get to fix the
code because, oh my gosh, it's fixed on Chrome stable.
sequence7 390 days ago | link