24th September 2010, 2:04 AM
They were the ones to first do the hardware acceleration. You didn't read my post. They were the big announcers. On that mark, it's the others that are copying them. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, it's what's needed to move browsers forward, but MS WERE the innovators here. At least give credit where it's due.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)