I had been eagerly anticipating the announced developer feature list for Firefox 1.5 for a while now.
I had just read that the beta 2 just had maybe 20 bugs in it and most of them not really serious ones. So I got one at work and installed it. It works like a charm. Nice feel, very stable and I got it to spin some of the canvas demos linked at Simon’s page.
The SVG and
Big Problem: We cross platform web developers are now faced with something of a problem. Firefox is now very much there in advanced feature support and I expect Safari and Opera to catch up some time soon.
Problem is that I do not know where our sick old man IE stands with this. It seems like they have a difficult enough time implementing security features, tabbed browsing and CSS with their 7.0 release. Hoping they implement stuff like canvas may just be a pipe dream.
Now the question is: for the really cool web applications. Do we just drop support for IE and tell them there are better and free alternatives?
