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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. Automatic Cup Holder by suso · · Score: -1, Troll

    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..

    You mean like being able to eject the client's CD drive from a website.

    (Actually, this might not work on IE 6.0+. Can you believe they actually fixed the problem.)

    1. Re:Automatic Cup Holder by dknj · · Score: -1, Troll

      What the fuck? You just went from saying that because IE allows vbscript in its web browser that it is tied to hidden OS API's (please reread your post before you challenge me on that) and now you're saying that if it was allowed on firefox it would be a bug? How do the two posts even relate to each other? Oh i'm sorry you are trolling.

      -dk

      please mod parent and this post down

  2. Re: MS needs to change windows fundamentally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, 512 millibits would indeed be a joke

    Thanks poindexter. Parent couldn't have made a typo, ohe noe.

    Oh, by the way, according to your grammar and layout, you just claimed to run OS X with 256 milibits and "it worked just fine thanks".

    Also, you forgot our good friend mr comma in between fine and thanks. Unless you were indicating some level of 'just fine thankfullness', but I'm going to go out on a limb here and think you were saying 'just fine, thank you'.

  3. Prove it. by blazerw11 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

    Prove it.
    And, I think you know how.

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    A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James