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WWW Inventor On Microsoft's Browser Tricks

Posted by timothy on from the creators'-rights dept.

Unipuma writes: "Tim Berners-Lee gives his views in an interview with Silicon Valley about the latests blocking of the MSN website for most other than Internet Explorer browsers. 'I have fought since the beginning of the Web for its openness: that anyone can read Web pages with any software running on any hardware. This is what makes the Web itself. This is the environment into which so many people have invested so much energy and creativity. When I see any Web site claim to be only readable using particular hardware or software, I cringe - they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information need a different program to access it.'"

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  1. WWW Inventor??? by Dutchmaan · · Score: 1, Funny

    It says 'www Inventor' in the headline... yet I don't see Al Gore's name anywhere...

    Besides... everyone knows thats where the word 'AlGore'rythm comes from..

    Dont hurt me!

  2. What have they learned? by kc0dby · · Score: 1, Funny



    DG: What has Microsoft learned from its antitrust experiences?

    TBL: I can't answer that one.


    Let me try:

    1. They are above the law.

    2. There are so many more opportunities to use their monopoly against the best wishes of consumers.

    3. Bad software doesn't really hurt their ability to leverage their monopoly.

    If their is any hope out there, we need to educate the general public in concern to the evils of Passport and single software browsing.

    We are just preaching to the choir here.

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  3. coincidence..? by kipple · · Score: 3, Funny

    let me see if I got it right: am I wrong, or that happened in the same period of time that XP was launched?

    No, I'm not thinking what I'm thinking, right?

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  4. Re:Hear hear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We were lucky and didn't have anything less than NN4 or IE5, believe it or not.

    I just visted your site using Netscape 3.x

    So now your statement is false.

  5. Who needs MSN? by certsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just added www.msn.com to my firewall's filter list, now all my browsers work exactly the same on that site.

  6. Really? by Slad · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought Al Gore invented the internet.

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  7. Re:Unreadable sites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't you be flashing my children, you perverted freak!

  8. Re:It's the right of other browsers to compete by KlomDark · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Noone's forcing anyone to serf to MSN, and noone's forcing you to view their page, despite your browser.... "

    Serf: (n) Slave, indentured servant.

    Hmmm... Interesting choice in spelling there...

  9. Re:Compatibility? What about standards? by Verteiron · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hell, on Win machines html files are already identified as "Microsoft HTML" files and have been since IE4 came out...

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  10. Re:Let's be fair: this isn't IE specific. by imuffin · · Score: 2, Funny

    If 95% or so of people use IE, then doesn't IE become the standard, putting the W3C into a state of noncompliance to the standard?