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AOL Beta Testing Gecko-Based Browser
Bedouin X writes: "MozillaZine is reporting that AOL has released a Gecko client for Windows! Scuttlebutt says that it's based on Gecko .94.2. While I think that the common assumption that AOL including Gecko equals 34 million new OSS users is fallacious (most AOL hits on my site are 5.0), there is no denying that it would be a major - though seemingly inevitible - win and great for a more standard web. Maybe Capital One would quit being the lone holdout of my creditors that don't support Mozilla." Reader SEE also adds a link to a story on CNET.
He won't do it because it's a problem which manifests itself within Internet Explorer. By refusing to acknowledge it, he is somehow in the false opinion that he is dealing a fatal blow to the "Great Beast of Redmond"
In fact, as with all browser related issues, the user perception is that the website is broken. As another poster quite succinctly pointed out, deliberate wide postings do not cause problems such as this on OTHER web-based forums. So clearly the fault is with Slashcode.
I browse with IE. I browse at -1. I see the wide postings, breaking the flow of the page. Am I encouraged to purchase a subscription?
The whole subscription thing is disturbing, as the Editors stand by the fact that there is no financial difference to them whether a user subscribes or not. They still receive the same money, either from ad-views or subscription.
Why have they implemented this? And why is the only forum for these questions found within the ghetto of -1 postings?
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
it just hurts my eyes to see the hypocrisy that exists here about AOL. just because AOL is using Gecko makes them suddenly lose the propriety behemoth that they are. i wonder what would have been the reaction should it have been Microsoft who had decided to use Gecko.
I don't think the latest mozillas have crashed on me when browsing, but when I have the mail client up, it crashes about once per day. I have a mix of IE6 and Mozilla and Opera in day to day use, and Opera is far more "stable and fast" than either of the other two, but less 'compatible' (only slightly ime).
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The Slash workaround for this Microsoft bug has been fixed and
committed, and will go live on Slashdot with the next code
refresh.
For the record, of the two suggested fixes submitted by trolls:
the first rejected many legitimate comments, the second generated
HTML that hung Internet Explorer (!), and neither could have
prevented "page-widening."