Microsoft's new Spartan browser will support extensions

It's a little late for all this, Sad that it takes a beating from Mozilla & Chrome for M$ to finally get on board.

Originally posted by Menion:

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It's a little late for all this, Sad that it takes a beating from Mozilla & Chrome for M$ to finally get on board.

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Sadly enough, no matter what MS calls the next rendition of IE......it's still IE. Riddled with insecurities, slowness, lack of extensions, pop-ups galore, etc, etc, etc.

You can put lipstick on a pig but remember........it's still a pig and stinks!

IE has already extension support (called BHOs; I have made some). The only thing is the API is pretty difficult if you are not already a Windows developer. Adding an extension layer similar to Chrome/Safari is a good move for Microsoft.

I just try to be as far as possible from IE aka "new" Spartan browser or wherever they wanna call it !

IE gets a bad wrap because of all of the various non-standard crap that the old versions, like IE6, supported when MS decided to not be standards compliant. That bit them in the behind and they've been playing catch up ever since.

I'm actually glad this is happening, because the further we can get from some of these versions of IE, the better for us web developers. It was just the other day I had someone complaining about a site rendering poorly in IE9 on XP! Upgrade people! That stuff isn't supported by anyone anymore!

Originally posted by SProdigy:

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...I had someone complaining about a site rendering poorly in IE9 on XP! Upgrade people! That stuff isn't supported by anyone

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