<story><title>IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dk3s0/the_ie9_team_responds_to_your_questions/c10szx5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>niyazpk</author><text>Mark my words, the decision of not to making IE9 compatible with XP will lead to thousands of hours of developer time and millions of dollars wasted in fixing browser compatibility issues. This will just be another reincarnation of the IE6 effect.&lt;p&gt;BTW the tl;dr version is an excellent summary. It is a warning to all the marketing people out there that the internet will make a bare truth tl;dr version of any sugarcoated market-speak you publish.</text></comment>
<story><title>IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dk3s0/the_ie9_team_responds_to_your_questions/c10szx5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cubicle67</author><text>in response to a question about websockets and friends:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Our approach when deciding what technologies to support starts with data. There are three things we consider: What are developers actually doing on the web today? What do developers want to do in the future? &amp;#60;snip&amp;#62;
We started by building a tool to look at the top 7000 sites and what web APIs they used.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Isn&apos;t this arse about? Isn&apos;t it kind of hard to use new tech if it isn&apos;t supported. I&apos;d love to be able to use some of the new HTML5 things, but IE is holding us back&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;XP is a platform that doesn&apos;t allow for the performance characteristics of a modern web experience.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;WTF sort of a response is that? There&apos;s some good answers in there, but this sort of spin-driven markety rhubarb works so hard to hide it. Why not just say that IE9 makes use of features available in Vista and 7, but not in XP.</text></comment>