The more things change…PhobosLabs: Hate IE with a Passion

Dominic, the guy behind that small, not-at-all-popular HTML5 Game engine called Impact.js just published a nice rantish post on called Hate IE with a Passion which outlines the reasons why, even though IE9 has made wondrous strides, IE still is holding back the web and HTML5 game development in general with it’s slow-as-molasses dev cycle.

Read the post and checkout Dominic’s rant about IE from onGameStart in the video below (about 26 minutes in)

OnGameStart 2011 – Survival Guide to HTML5 – Dominic Szablewski (ImpactJS) from Filmpoint on Vimeo.


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