[UPHPU] Swift: a web browser for Windows

[Alvaro Carrasco]

Mac Newbold wrote:
> Aug 2 at 12:03pm, Alvaro Carrasco said:
>
>>> It's pretty trivial to run multiple versions of IE, and it definitely
>>> facilitates testing/development. For my purposes, I'd say I have the 
>>> ideal
>>> setup -- IE 7, standalone IE 5-6, Firefox 1.5, Netscape 6, Opera 
>>> 7-8, and
>>> Konqueror (coLinux) on my Windows machine and Safari/IE5 on a Mac Mini. 
>> What i think makes it irrelevant is that as developers we must 
>> develop with a lowest common denominator in mind, and it will be a 
>> while before IE6 stops being that lowest common denominator.
>>
>> I expect most sites that work on IE6 and Firefox right now, won't be 
>> broken on IE7 (they better not be!! :)), as long as they're not 
>> relying on IE6 bugs, so i expect to do a quick run trough some of my 
>> sites once once IE7 is released, no major testing or fixing.
>
> In my opinion, that's pretty optimistic. Very optimistic. And I'm an 
> optimist myself, almost to a fault. Judging by the betas they've 
> released so far, I expect that MSIE7 will become yet another layer of 
> hacks that people will need to apply, since now you'll have to do 
> different things not just for MSIE, but for MSIE6 _and_ MSIE7, which 
> will have different bugs and shortcomings. And if the thing about 
> quirks mode vs. standards compliant mode is true, and people start 
> flipping that switch, that's going to be a third special case headache.
>
> Mac
>
Maybe i am being a little too optimistic.

The switch is not something that user's do, developers make that switch 
by adding a doctype to their html, so that shouldn't be something else 
to worry about since if you switch it on, you only need to develop for 
'standards compliant' IE, not 'quirks mode' IE.

Alvaro