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Name: Thierry
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well,all of the IE only things making me think firefox is a stupid program made by a guy leve in the street.
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The Stockholm syndrome, he ?
When the abducted become sympathetic of their abductor, and start defend them.
It's exactly what you do here.
Microsoft deliberately r.a.p.e.d every established standards to push their programs on the front scene for the last decade, and made the whole suit of their programs mostly compatible, but with just enough specificities to annoy peoples and drive them to use Microsoft programs.
This even lead to a trial by Sun, because Microsoft java machine was "not compatible" with the official implementation.
It didn't stopped there though. When PDF started to spread, Microsoft tried all it could to impose word and excel formats as an universal answer, Which makes me laugh, have you ever tried to edit a 3'000 pages document on word. Don't, it will only drive you mad. It took me 2 years to get over it.
To summarize: firefox, opera, safari and chrome are doing it right. They follow established standards, and have a coherent comportment towards them
IE5 and 6 are so fscked up, that they locked their users in. Some asian governments even blocked IE7 update at a time, because almost every banking web interfaces where implemented as activeX interfaces, which where incompatible with IE7.
IE8 seems to get in a better direction, as I've heard (but I have not followed the news), but this already caused "riots" because it breaks too many sites designed for IE in mind, and I've heard that there where lobbying group trying to dissuade Microsoft to set the "w3c standard mode" on by default, and to only let the users enable it if they specifically want it.
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Last edited by tripy; 01-17-2009 at 10:22 AM..
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