Firefox Reviewed in the Globe and Mail

Eric Giguere writes "Today's Globe and Mail has a Firefox review titled A bug-free surfing zone in its Friday review section. Slashdot readers probably won't like the last phrase, though: 'Until Firefox finds a way around that, you might have to keep Internet ExplORer around -- just for emergencies, of course.'"

Comments

Re:My favorite Firefox story

[onewing]

Stop spreading misleading information.

They were showing how the MSN search beta would work with other broswers.

Re:What do you mean?

[St. Arbirix]

You must have missed the several months of complaining back when I think Windows XP was first being released and Microsoft announced that they would include their own implementation of the Java runtime with Windows.

FUD is one ways of doing the mean things they do, the other way is called "embrace and extend." They embraced the Java API (or whatever it is that's standardized and documented about Java) and extended it with some goodies that only worked with their runtime. As with rendering webpages, the Microsoft way of doing it follows the general idea behind the standards, but it's still going to be a little off from what you'd expect by purely following the standards. The tweaking required to get things to run perfectly on IE can often break it for other platforms.