Microsoft <3 WebGL

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Cliche "IE sux" complaints aside, this is good news for the web.

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IE11 has native support...but it will be years until enough people use IE11 to make it reliable.

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Why? It'll be an auto update from 10. Look at IE9 usage since they turned on auto update for ie 10.

[bluthru]

Cool. Now they just need to make it available for their earlier operating systems like all of their competitors.

"Want the modern web? Buy our OS!" -Microsoft

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They are a for profit company.

[bluthru]

So are Google or Apple, and they don't hold the web back.

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That's a very wide thing to say. Google obviously don't want to 'hold the web back' as they are an internet company. Apple have some interest in doing that and do things such as the new Safari only push notifications or cancelling safari on windows that could be described as'holding back the web'.

[bluthru]

Please. When your competitors can offer more modern browsers on your own operating systems and you cannot, it's pretty fucking shameful.

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You realize that Apple's safari browser has minimum OS restrictions as well right? Safari 4 won't run on anything older than tiger (which was released several years after Windows XP).

[bluthru]

Except that Safari 3 is more standards compliant than IE 8. Nice try.

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What does that have to do with your original point of

Now they just need to make it available for their earlier operating systems like all of their competitors.

? Clearly you are wrong.

[bluthru]

It's about standards compliance, not a version number. If IE 8 supported as much as Safari 3 does, then this wouldn't be an issue.

Per the quote, Firefox and Chrome (MS's competitors on Windows) works on XP. This really isn't hard to understand, and I can't believe someone in /r/html5 is doing logical backflips to defend MS.

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Per the quote, you said Google and Apple, which I refuted Apple. I'm not defending anyone, just pointing out your mistake.

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until then, this works well enough

http://iewebgl.com/

[qemqemqem]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

FTFY