The Web Platform Podcast

The Internet Explorer team at MIcrosoft are making waves in the developer community. The Internet Explorer browser (AKA IE or Internet Exploder) has a long and jaded history. Newer developers may not recall, but fifteen years ago Internet Explorer was arguably THE best browser experience we had.  IE had some basic developer tools, it practically invented AJAX with its ActiveX Technology, and it was the standard that corporate web development was measured by. Then, something happened. Firefox was born.   The Firefox browser, created by Mozilla, in contrast to IE was rapidly developed and it worked with standards bodies to guide feature implementation. One key success factor for Mozilla was that Firefox was an open source community driven project. Microsoft did not follow the same philosophies as Mozilla in their development. They opted to continue using proprietary technologies and continued on the path that led them to success for so many years.   The community began to resent Microsoft & Internet Explor