It was very interesting to hear all four browsers battle it out in this type of forum.
Here’s the basic rundown. AOL didn’t say much, Microsoft wouldn’t say much, Mozilla said a lot but wouldn’t say a few things and Opera talked them all under the table.
They all pretty much agreed that the web is better now than during the last major battle in the war on standards. Microsoft admitted it had a way to go on catching up with the standards and FF talked about some recent progress in that department. The entire panel either agreed or didn’t quibble that Opera was the most compliant. They also unanimously agreed that it didn’t rightly matter since the majority of the web has been written with broken browsers in mind. I don’t remember the exact numbers, but twice as many of the top 100 sites are using strict mode now versus a year ago.
Moderator: Arun Ranganathan , AOL
Arun Ranganathan AOL
Brendan Eich CTO, Mozilla
Charles McCathieNevile CSO, Opera Software
Chris Wilson IE Platform Architect, Microsoft
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