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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. First Post! by TommyBear · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yipeeeee!

    1. Re:First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Fag.

    2. Re:First Post! by lanswitch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      error: no space left in device

  2. Re:Dr Seuss explains IE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That story is better than Horton hires a Ho!

  3. Re:Automatic Cup Holder by LDoggg_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how was that flamebait?
    I can confirm what the parent said.

    Still not fixed, at least its not fixed as of IE version 6.0.2800.1106

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  4. Gone to the dogs by suso · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    how was that flamebait?

    Honestly, I think that slashdot has really gone to the dogs and this thread really proves that. My original post was first modded up to interesting, then down to troll and overrated and now its up to interesting again. 3 years ago a post like that would have been modded up to +5 Interesting and there would have been many supporting comments. But you take a look at all the reply comments people made now about it not being IE's fault and that its Visual Basic and you wonder, what are these people thinking? When did slashdot take on so many people that don't see the obviousness of this problem. When did we get so many windows supporters on this site. Where have all the great OSS zealots gone that could argue down windows folk with a brilliant point of logic.

    Reading slashdot comments anymore feels like crawling through a post-apocolyptic wasteland.

    1. Re:Gone to the dogs by JWW · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Don't blame me. I haven't gotten any modpoints in over two months. I used to routinely get them.

      I've also noticed in metamoderating that I'm marking more mods as bad. There seems to be more use of the negative mods lately. I really hate the overated and oftopic moderations and generally never agree with them.

  5. Re:MS needs to change windows fundamentally by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mods lost their sense of humour and smoking crack again i see.

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  6. Re:Automatic Cup Holder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. apple products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I once borrowed an apple ipod. Now this was in a small to medium southeastern city, I could walk down mainstreet and generally enjoy a spring day, no hastles, really nice clean city, pretty hip and metro and folks were pretty friendly but generally everyone minded their own business.

    Once I tried to do the same wearing the apple ipod, I could not walk 5 steps without some homo begging for some anonymous homo sex in the nearest alley or public restroom. And this is in the southeast, I can imagine how bad it gets out west. I'll never buy an apple product ever.