I think part of the reason why Microsoft stopped developing IE is that the developers behind it got sick of being criticized for trying to innovate. Many of them left the IE team and moved over to the XAML project (aka WPF/Silverlight) so they could continue to do great work without being attacked for it. That is a shame, because I would have much rather seen the XAML concepts poured into HTML/CSS/JavaScript foundation. Meanwhile, the W3C produced jack squat during those same years. This is what we have to thank the Web Standards Project for.

The above quote is from Joe Hewitt’s post The IPhone Is IE4 Again (in a good way).

Joe rips into the people that are complaining about the new set of iphone.foo.com views that are out there. “Oh no! It will be like the powered by IE days!”.

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