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October 11, 2005
Convergent vs divergent engines
Convergent vs divergent engines: Until reading this essay I had assumed that the various browser engines would converge on more and more functionality... it took awhile for CSS support to stabilize at a certain level, took awhile for XML requests to become acceptable, etc... I had been picturing a steady advance as new browsers eventually implement more features as competing browsers do. But Ruzel here points out that as uses become more complex, they become easier to break. I'm not sure what to make of this... I don't think it would be possible for Internet Explorer 7.0 to suddenly break Google Suggest or other uses of XmlHttpRequest. He did expose an assumption in my thinking, though.
Posted by John Dowdell at October 11, 2005 05:15 PM
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