Comments on: Apple’s iPhone with Safari <> Microsoft Windows with IE. http://kristofmattei.be/2009/02/19/apples-iphone-with-safari-microsoft-windows-with-ie/ A blog on my experiences in programming, work, and life! Mon, 21 May 2012 04:23:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ted G. http://kristofmattei.be/2009/02/19/apples-iphone-with-safari-microsoft-windows-with-ie/comment-page-1/#comment-1591 Ted G. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:28:45 +0000 http://kristofmattei.be/2009/02/19/apples-iphone-with-safari-microsoft-windows-with-ie/#comment-1591 [Safari on the iPhone/iPod Touch] "Not sucking balls like IE on WiMO" sadly isn't a very good reason imho... Power to the people ! Choice = _O_ [Safari @ OS X] The reason why Apple (aside from it not having the biggest monopoly in the known universe) won't ever get attacked is because EVERYTHING is EASILY removable, just like it was possible in Windows a decade ago (!!!). IE and its engine were both 100% removable back then. The "omg all the old shit we have needs Trident"-problem everyone seems to be jabbering about is easily solvable by packaging and supplying Trident as an installable browser engine (like xulrunner). Removing IE BY DEFAULT is really silly imho, just like removing Safari from a default OS X install. Really the only thing Microsoft has to do to please the EC is separating Trident from the rest of Windows (like it was a decade ago) and make both Trident and IE options (radio boxes) while installing Windows (defaulting to the checked-state). Removing them afterwards shouldn't be a problem of course. [Safari on the iPhone/iPod Touch]
“Not sucking balls like IE on WiMO” sadly isn’t a very good reason imho… Power to the people ! Choice = _O_

[Safari @ OS X]
The reason why Apple (aside from it not having the biggest monopoly in the known universe) won’t ever get attacked is because EVERYTHING is EASILY removable, just like it was possible in Windows a decade ago (!!!). IE and its engine were both 100% removable back then. The “omg all the old shit we have needs Trident”-problem everyone seems to be jabbering about is easily solvable by packaging and supplying Trident as an installable browser engine (like xulrunner).

Removing IE BY DEFAULT is really silly imho, just like removing Safari from a default OS X install. Really the only thing Microsoft has to do to please the EC is separating Trident from the rest of Windows (like it was a decade ago) and make both Trident and IE options (radio boxes) while installing Windows (defaulting to the checked-state). Removing them afterwards shouldn’t be a problem of course.

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