<story><title>When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared</title><url>https://paulbakaus.com/2015/03/13/when-ie-gave-us-beautiful-fast-touch-interactions-and-nobody-cared/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vdnkh</author><text>&amp;gt;Literally caused me nausea&lt;p&gt;This is off topic but seriously? You actually felt like you were going to vomit due to a business tactic?</text></item><item><author>lectrick</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know about other people, but as an early web developer who worked in an all-Microsoft shop, learning about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish&lt;/a&gt; literally caused me nausea and I quit my job and became an open source developer very soon after and never looked back. There was something so entirely... wrong about that approach. And the browser that was involved with it. And the company that even conceived of it. I still harbor plenty of anti-MS anger as a result (well that, and having to do IE compatibility for many years!)&lt;p&gt;(I admit that also reading the books &amp;quot;The Cathedral and the Bazaar&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Hackers &amp;amp; Painters&amp;quot; influenced me a lot!)</text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>I think the reason nobody seems to care about IE today isn&amp;#x27;t that it is a terrible browser, as in the past, but that it doesn&amp;#x27;t run on Mac OS or GNU&amp;#x2F;Linux. There are certainly people doing development on Windows, but more (at least of people who would use features like this) doing so on other platforms. Until IE is cross-platform, many developers will continue to ignore it because they have no reasonable way of using it and getting to know it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lectrick</author><text>I am a really opinionated&amp;#x2F;principled developer who cares deeply about my work.&lt;p&gt;I quit my last job because I could tell my boss had perverse incentives that he wouldn&amp;#x27;t admit to. I knew the codebase needed a refactor desperately and he insisted I work on something else (because he was leaving and didn&amp;#x27;t want to rock the boat). I can&amp;#x27;t work under those conditions. Turns out I was right... After I left, he announced he was leaving... right after his RSU&amp;#x27;s vested.</text></comment>
<story><title>When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared</title><url>https://paulbakaus.com/2015/03/13/when-ie-gave-us-beautiful-fast-touch-interactions-and-nobody-cared/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vdnkh</author><text>&amp;gt;Literally caused me nausea&lt;p&gt;This is off topic but seriously? You actually felt like you were going to vomit due to a business tactic?</text></item><item><author>lectrick</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know about other people, but as an early web developer who worked in an all-Microsoft shop, learning about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish&lt;/a&gt; literally caused me nausea and I quit my job and became an open source developer very soon after and never looked back. There was something so entirely... wrong about that approach. And the browser that was involved with it. And the company that even conceived of it. I still harbor plenty of anti-MS anger as a result (well that, and having to do IE compatibility for many years!)&lt;p&gt;(I admit that also reading the books &amp;quot;The Cathedral and the Bazaar&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Hackers &amp;amp; Painters&amp;quot; influenced me a lot!)</text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>I think the reason nobody seems to care about IE today isn&amp;#x27;t that it is a terrible browser, as in the past, but that it doesn&amp;#x27;t run on Mac OS or GNU&amp;#x2F;Linux. There are certainly people doing development on Windows, but more (at least of people who would use features like this) doing so on other platforms. Until IE is cross-platform, many developers will continue to ignore it because they have no reasonable way of using it and getting to know it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cgag</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know about nausea but if that doesn&amp;#x27;t cause some kind of anger or disgust you&amp;#x27;ve got problems.</text></comment>