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It may come of no surprise to many in the developer world, but Microsoft’s continued reluctance to include the open source Webkit HTML layout engine in its latest Release Candidate of the IE9 Web browser is sure to annoy. Whether it will ever be supported is anyone’s guess, but with the growing body of developers deploying Webkit, it’s more than likely than likely they may end up supporting it. Webkit is currently supported by the Safari Web browser, as well as Google Chrome and Firefox.
To see a prime example of how annoying it can be to deploy a newly emerging open standard, try viewing our own IT Specialist Web site that contains the code. First, open the site or home page in Internet Explorer in any version of Internet Explorer. You may not notice anything at first, but if you look closely you’ll see that the tab designs do not match on the home page or elsewhere throughout the site. That is, the main tabs (e.g. Certification, Developer, etc.) are rounded, but the sub tabs used to display content below them are square (e.g. Tech Reviews, Tech Blogs, etc.). However, try viewing it in Firefox or Chrome and you’ll notice that the tabs are all rounded as they should be.
We decided to stick with the Webkit code for now, since the difference is subtle, but for more obvious layouts, it’s a non-starter. The majority of our site’s visitors and members still use IE. In fact, a recent report by the CIA says that IE is now on the uptick, with Firefox and Chrome use declining somewhat.
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