Microsoft enlists web security pariah Adobe to
help build Internet Explorer killer Spartan
@@Don-t panic: The Photoshop giant-s doing the
pretty bits, not the secure bits @@Microsoft has revealed it-s working with
Adobe on some aspects of project Spartan, its replacement browser that will
confine Internet Explorer to the Antique Code Show//
@@When one contemplates Adobe-s contribution to browsers, it-s hard not to think of the carnage its Flash plugin has wrought with a seemingly never ending cavalcade of flaws//
@@When one contemplates Adobe-s contribution to browsers, it-s hard not to think of the carnage its Flash plugin has wrought with a seemingly never ending cavalcade of flaws//
@@Microsoft doesn-t mention the war in its post
about the collaboration, which it says has been established because Adobe has
helped open source web rendering engines and so knows its way around the
browser// Adobe-s * Web Platform Team* is therefore contributing to Spartan * in the
areas of layout, typography, graphic design and motion* //
@@The collaboration can be seen in the current
build of Spartan that landed in the March Technical Preview of Windows 10,
which apparently supports new web graphics things called * CSS gradient
midpoints* and the blend modes* // Both
make it easier to describe colour on a web page//
@@Microsoft says it-s working with Adobe because
it has a ////// goal to bring the team and technologies behind our web platform
closer to the community of developers and other vendors who are also working to
move the Web forward//*
@@Redmond-s therefore promising to reveal other
collaborators on Spartan, and other bits of its * web platform* , in coming
weeks//