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IE Developer Responds to Mozilla Accusations

Posted by Zonk on from the other-side-of-the-coin dept.

sriram_2001 writes "Dave Massy, a Microsoft employee who works on the Internet Explorer team has a response to the Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker's comments. Specifically, he responds to the claim that IE is a part of the operating system. 'IE is part of the Windows Operating System so that parts of the OS and other applications can rely on the functionality and APIs being present. To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows..'

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  1. i am reminded of the opening of the hhgg by silid · · Score: 5, Funny

    "But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the
    last nine month."

    "Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them,
    yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention
    to them had you? I mean like actually telling anybody or anything."

    "But the plans were on display ..."

    "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

    "That's the display department."

    "With a torch."

    "Ah, well the lights had probably gone."

    "So had the stairs."

    "But look, you found the notice didn't you?"

    "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked
    filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying
    Beware of the Leopard."

  2. Stop. What's that sound? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    IIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!

    That's the sound lusers make as they get their so-called browsers hijacked and spywared to death.

  3. Dr Seuss explains IE by TommyBear · · Score: 5, Funny

    If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
    And IE is interrupted as a very last resort,
    And the address of the memory makes your FireFox abort,
    Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

    If your cursor finds a IE link followed by a dash,
    And the VBScript code puts your windows in the trash,
    And your data is corrupted because IE and Firefox clash,
    Then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

  4. Re:Careless? by natrius · · Score: 5, Funny

    You might want to check your spelling when you're making a very public argument about how your software is not more prone to vulnerabilities than another.

    Who proofreads blog entries? That's like clicking the Preview button on Slashdot.