Let's be accurate with Microsoft. IE 8 has some backwards compatibility shims that are evil. IE 6 is the required browser at the Fortune 20 company that employs me. There is no single aspect of the WWW that has poured more time and money down the drain than IE 6. I joke about bringing a class action suit over it but just barely.

jQuery was very popular before Microsoft started to ship it and their "endorsement" changed little if anything. It was the result of jQuery's utility, license, and footprint.

That said, and I truly dislike Microsoft for many reasons, IE 9 is shaping up to be the best browser there is and by quite a bit.

In reply to Re^2: A decade in the Monastery by Your Mother
in thread A decade in the Monastery by dws

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