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New IE Disables Netscape-style Plug-ins

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the antitrust-shields-holding-firm dept.

Snibor Eoj writes: "In his latest column, Robert Cringely takes a look at Microsoft's motivation for disabling Netscape API plug-ins in IE. As always with Cringely, it's an interesting take on things. We'll see how this one turns out..." Among other things, this will disable Quicktime plugins.

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  1. Developers aren't the problem by kawika · · Score: 0, Redundant
    If web developers would be professional enough to embrace standards properly, we wouldn't need to have this discussion.

    Dear diary, today I wrote many pages of standards-compliant HTML and ECMAScript. Yes, it won't work on the majority of browsers that people use. But I must hold true to standards, even if they're not deployed.