Microsoft to Implement HTML5 Canvas?

by f1lt3r • 17 years ago

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I got in touch with Pete LePage, a Project Manager for the Internet Explorer team and asked him whether we could expect to see the Canvas in IE9. Here is what he said: http://processingjs.org/blog/?p=30

mahmud2• 17 years ago

WOW! The author links to a Microsoft community feed-back page where people can vote on web standards they want Microsoft to implement/comply-with! And the author says "It worked with True Type", meaning TT fonts where added after community outcry?

Why on bloody earth wasn't this exploited? why can't Microsoft take the pulse of the web developer community and .. do the right thing on its own without having to be told?

pierrefar2• 17 years ago

26 steps? Typical of Microsoft, and anyone who isn't really interested in listening.

Thanks, but I hope IE just dies and we can get on with our lives. It's already becoming irrelevant, and that's just fine by me.

maukdaddy• 17 years ago

This is the second day in a row I can use the same comment! Products with >50% market-share are not irrelevant; they are VERY relevant. And as much as you might hate it, IE is not just going to die.

Hexstream• 17 years ago

On the other hand, irrelevant products with disproportiate marketshare inevitably lose marketshare eventually. And the more marketshare you have, the less you can gain and the more you can lose.

riffic• 17 years ago

again, more does not mean better. relevance and quality go hand in hand.

mahmud2• 17 years ago

Mediocre products with huge market penetration are more likely to die a horrible death because: 1) they have maxed out their growth potential, and there are fewer and fewer converts for them to target. 2) since their quality is bad, better competitors are likely to gain viral growth by only contrasting themselves to the mediocre status-quo; its name recognition will be used against it and its brand sabotaged (i.e. "Like X but doesn't suck", "a better X", "an X with ..", etc.)

halo2• 17 years ago

It's only Microsoft who can make a product with "only" 65% market share and have people describe it as 'becoming irrelevant'.

run4yourlives• 17 years ago

Last year it was closer to 85% of market, so the description is pretty accurate, really.

pierrefar2• 17 years ago

@halo and @maukdaddy: the trend of marketshare of IE is downwards. It's not irrelevant now (I never said it was) but it's already becoming irrelevant: It's marketshare is going down with no obvious response from MS to stop this trend.

audionerd• 17 years ago

Does it really take 26 steps to suggest a feature for Internet Explorer?

ihumanable• 17 years ago

The title is a little bit misleading, better title, "Microsoft rep responds with boiler-plate about how you can go through some byzantine process to put a comment on a forum about a situation that everyone is well aware of."

Entlin• 17 years ago

How long until somebody creates a wrapper that automates this into a neat 1 step process? :-)

bradgessler• 17 years ago

It would be interesting to not just track % of browser marketshare, but also track the derivatives of marketshare. With this data web developers could more accurately determine how much they should invest in making a web application work with older browsers.

Does anybody know if this data exists somewhere already?

Microsoft to Implement HTML5 Canvas?

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