Month: May 2010

In an article this morning speaking about what Internet Explorer 9 will, and will not, support, DownloadSquad tells also of how Microsoft will gain tremendously by backing the H.264 codec. Instead of it being some Apple-Microsoft gentleman’s agreement to screw Adobe, it is instead a possible bow to inevitability by Apple, and a nod that Microsoft wishes to be in the driver’s seat on things; or at the very least, a backseat driver with long arms just in case. Also pondered is whether H.264 or HTML5 will dominate. In my way of thinking, the world will not unite suddenly, and both of these standards, as well as current ones. will all be part of the web. Because that is how it will be, I see Internet Explorer 9 becoming more of a niche browser, and losing all that Microsoft fought so unfairly to win back in the ‘90s. I realize how that sounds. But so many people only use IE today because they have to, or don’t know any better. That is changing over time, as more and more use something else through the simple emulation of others they see. With the EU browser screen, fewer PCs will have IE as a real working browser on the machine, and the effect will snowball, eventually making IE a browser of last resort. But let’s see exactly what DownloadSquad has said...