[citation][nom]jujuvivi[/nom]Indeed.1997: IE 4: DHTML & close to full CSS 2 & HTML 41998: IE 5: AJAX - better CSS/HTML2001: IE 6: a little better2006: IE 7: A little better2009: IE 8: A little better2011: IE 9: HTML 5, SVG, Performance, Full www compatibility...In 10 years, between 1998 and 2009, Microsoft barely worked on IE.It's only after other browsers catch up that they finally went back on it.[/citation]
catch up?
The moment that Firefox came out the only reason the home user should never use Internet Explorer was in case something doesn't work in Firefox, and from my memory, there wasn't much that didn't work in Firefox ever… I think the one thing that actually work better Internet explorer than Firefox was flash, that just might be I was always tab Hedy and opening one instance of Internet Explorer verses a 50 tabs Firefox was a big difference.
[citation][nom]zybch[/nom]You are totally blind if you believe they haven't already done this many times.Google are about one thing and one thing only, profit.As soon as fools like you get it through their thick heads that google isn't a search or mapping or mail company and are actually just an advertising corporation the sooner you'll see how they do NOTHING if it doesn't directly lead them to more profits.Google is an advertiser, none of its 'free' products are designed to do anything more than drive advertising traffic.[/citation]
And your point being?
They make money by showing me a small lad on the right-hand side whenever I do a search, the first two links are as and they are clearly labeled with a different color, Gmail looks for buzzwords and puts a small ticker on it.
only people really give a crap? calipers are being advertised to at most one don't give a crap, they might care about spam mail but Google doesn't do that to my knowledge. Tell me the evils of Google by giving me free products by putting a small advertisement in, then show me Microsoft's price on these products Google offers free. Last time I looked up Microsoft Office with over $300, granted that was years ago, but the point stands, if Google develops their document software and actually compete with Microsoft on a even playing field what I'd rather use, the person who makes me pay $300 for the software, or Google who currently has no advertisements at all their documents, and is still giving it away for free.
[citation][nom]stm1185[/nom]Chrome has been great for the web though. Just look at how much it pushes innovation not just it's own but Mozilla's and Microsoft's too. We'd probably still be on Firefox 3.6 and IE 8 if not for Chrome forcing the competition. Especially on the UI front. Try and picture what IE or FF would look like today without having Chrome around.[/citation]
I have to get extensions to make Firefox look like it used to. I despise the minimalist look.for chrome it works but everyone is trying to copy that looks that I hate so much.
If I want my browser to be minimalist I get an extension for that.