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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I'll second that. One of the reasons I will be replacing my Treo with a S60 phone next week is the pathetic browsing experience on Palm's Blazer. Granted, it's better than the average non-smartphone, but not by much. The S60 phones by Nokia have a browser based on the same rendering engine as Safari. It's not quite as spiffy as the iPhone; screen size and non-touchscreen capability limit it somewhat, but from what I've seen it is leaps and bounds ahead of Palm. I'm looking forward to being able to access my bank account again, as well as benefitting from all the iPhone-friendly web applications springing up.
The Symbian OS has really come along nicely in the past few years, something I've ignored until recently, when I really started hitting brick walls with my aging Palm. It will be a refreshing change and a step towards the future of standards-based mobile browsing.