The father of World-Wide-Web points out the one big drawback of IE

September 12, 2008

In be interviewed of this week, the father Tim Berners-Lee of World-Wide-Web says, he is not willing to actor or actress to the what of network browser what bad makes what comment, but have some of view however to the IE of Microsoft.

Tim Berners-Lee expresses, in the graph of the webpage processing respect IE has lagged behind at other browser now.

At present network figure puts vectorgraph form form to SVG codes and be become with can shrinking mostly, its dimension can be adjusted at will according to window size, and won’t destroy the definition of image, detail wait.

Tim Berners-Lee says: “If you leave a heart to observe all sorts of browsers, with respect to meeting discovery they support SVG mostly, what I want to let you point out one is supporting SVG respect to do now is not quite good. What I want to let you point out one is supporting SVG respect to do now is not quite good..

So the answer is IE certainly. When Firefox, Safari and other browser already inside buy when the support to SVG, microsoft still is using the plug-in unit that an Adobe company offers. When use IE opens SVG file, you must want to download this plug-in unit above all, the circumstance in the IE8 Beta edition that issues recently still is old pattern actually.

Microsoft states in a statement: “To supporting SVG we also had evaluated this issue for some time, website developer exists really to the demand of SVG, we can give sufficient attention to this. We can give sufficient attention to this..

Ignored is washed-up also, because arrive next year on January 1, adobe can stop to offer SVG plug-in unit for its.

Microsoft supports form of another kind of vectorgraph form at present, namely VML of language of sign of so called vector. However, 2001 type of W3C solicit comments recommends use SVG.