[OT] Re: Short forum post on REST API

[Sean Kelly]

From talking to our web programmers, each browser still has anomalies that must be worked around. IE is no exception. 

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On Apr 2, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am 03.04.2011 00:22, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe:
>> Nick Sabalausky:
>>> Heh, yup. Because after all, VRML just went over sooo well.
>> 
>> Yeah... "what's old is new again" fits so well to web 2.0.
>> 
>> WebGL gets more minus points too since its on shaky technical
>> grounds too. It isn't very 'webby' if you will and may have
>> security implications... but wheee you can make shitty ports
>> of old games to the browser!
> 
> If it helps killing Flash I'm fine with WebGL, HTML5-videotag (I hope google's
> WebM will win) etc. However that shouldn't be used in serious (non
> demo/showcase) websites until proper support is ready in all major browsers.
> 
> As a web developer you should be glad that IE5/6's days are over and browsers
> are a more standard-conformant - or did you like writing a different version  of
> your websites for each browser?
> A friend of mine who does web programming complained about having to work around
> IE6's anomalies a lot until he could finally stop supporting it, so I'm kind of
> surprised that you and Nick seem to like these old versions of the IE.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Daniel