By bloid
via nofluffjuststuff.com
Published: Jul 15 2008 / 18:59
Well the moment I've been dreading has finally arrived. The Microsoft IE team has announced that IE 8 will include an important new feature that is not standard to Ajax: The ability to update the navigation log using JavaScript.
As Waldek Mastykarz said in his blog Innovation Matters, "What concerns me is the fact, that it will be supported in IE8 only." You got it; Microsoft has drawn first blood in what will be the next browser war. As Microsoft introduces new features the Firefox team will be faced again and again with two questions:
Comments
killerweb replied ago:
Read it, but wait a minute. I really don't think updating navigation for Ajax calls is "breaking standards". For starters, I think NOT updating the browser via Ajax was a BUG to start with. Why didn't browser support it, does it say in the standards guide, "when an AJAX request is made, browsers SHOULD NOT update their history". I agree that MS will create some sort of war, but this is far from the reason. This is more like, "shit, it never said we couldn't". Maybe I am wrong, but if not, then it's really a non-starter and ALL browsers should fix this now anyway.
jmprado replied ago:
I'm thinking about the security holes this kind of "feature" will open...
dragmire replied ago:
I don't mind this. It's been my argument against using AJAX in the first place for quite a while. Navigation is broken.
I think its a strange argument, though, that either of the companies is supposed to somehow be the follower. I'm glad to see MS getting back into the swing of things. Should make Firefox even better.
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