Linked by Kroc on Wed 5th Mar 2008 19:02 UTC
Microsoft decided that due to their new interoperability initiative, they would reverse a previous decision to make IE8 default to the IE7 engine, instead of supporting standards-compliance by default. No article or musing I have yet read has delved into what is increasingly likely, the reason for this sudden change in decision -- and that is this: the mobile web is coming.
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2007-02-05
Really interesting article. Never thought of it that way. It's a really good point though, I've used a couple of mobile browsers(Safari, Opera Mini, Opera Mobile) and anything that's standard-compliant and doesen't rely heavily on JS or Flash usually works like a charm. So... my experiences fit your theory. Thanks for a good article.
(If OSnews sent my mobile browser a far more the desktop version of the site, or at least the a link to that one on the mobile version I'd probably read OSnews as much on my mobile as I do on my PC. I allready do that with several other newssites.)
btw. The Safari isn't the only mobile browser worth mentioning, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile shipped on no less than 122 mobile phone models last year. Opera Mini is really interesting since it works on all phones. (For PDA-like phones the more powerfull Opera Mobile is more interesting since it's actually more or less the same engine as desktop Opera.)
I've actually managed to get hold of a leaked Opera Mobile 0.50 Pre-Alpha. Of course not very stable, but show som really interesting stuff. Looking forward to when it's released. (Please excuse my obvius Opera-fanboyism, I mean no harm!)