Is this is arhetorical question? Early in the article Tim discovers that Micrsoft spent the post Netscape years working on WPF and Silverlight instead of IE and compliance with emerging open web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (the WebKit Docuemnt Model)
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15 Mar 08
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I asked Hachamovitch, who has led the Explorer team since 2003, why it has taken Microsoft so long to address these deficiencies. "It comes down to what we were doing with our time," he said. "Between 2001 and 2003 we were building what you experience now as Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight."
These technologies display not HTML, the language of web pages, but XAML, Microsoft's proprietary code for creating rich visual content.
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It sounds good, but Hachamovitch's warmth begins to fade when I broach the vexed subject of browser scripting. The context is important. Hachamovitch had already stated that Microsoft spent three years neglecting IE for the sake of a more proprietary technology, which is now appearing on the web as a browser plug-in called Silverlight. This is similar in some ways to Adobe's Flash, and supports rich multimedia effects within web pages, as well as the ability to run applications written in Microsoft's .NET Framework.
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Add Sticky NoteIs it possible that Microsoft is stifling the advancement of JavaScript in order to promote programming within Silverlight instead?
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14 Mar 08
Chris JoblingArticle from The Guardian Technology, Thursday 13th March 2008 on Microsoft's reversal of its initial plans to make Microsoft's first web standards-compliant browser, IE8, work like IE7 unless switched to standards mode. It will now follow standards.
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