<META HTTP-EQUIV="X-BALL-CHAIN">. Mozilla hacker Robert O’Callahan discusses the technical implications of freezing copies of older rendering engines, including the increased footprint and the terrifying prospect of documents in different rendering modes communicating through iframes and the DOM.
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Yeah, I’d be surprised if other major browsers added this feature. Only IE had enough historical CSS issues to require it.
With the new rendering engine for IE 8, hopefully that’ll be a thing of the past.
And, to be fair, only IE has enough market share to require a solution like this.
I had the same thought, but now I just expect that MS will use it as a carrot to spur IE8 adoption, then EOL IE6 support as a stick to encourage switching to IE9.
Norman David Gerre - 22nd January 2008 23:25 - #