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IBM Donates Code to Firefox
OS24Ever writes "Internetnews.com is reporting that IBM has donated new DHTML code to the Mozilla foundation specifically targeted as accessability and rich interactive applications (RIA). These new features are expected to be in the next major update of Firefox (v1.5). Is this the first OSS application to get RIA/DHTML support for accessability? I would think this could open some doors for Firefox to replace IE in many Windows environments."
I bet it attracts attention from SCO. No open source project related to IBM will be safe until they are put underground.
I think SCO is now looking through their SVR5 versions to see if they can somehow link this publicly released code to there existing case.
Perhaps you confuse Internet Explorer with all web browsers not named Firefox? My, but that's rather silly of you.
Things like being totally unable to turn Firefox into a pop-up-less, completely tab-based web browser like Opera is?
I'd spent so long trying to get that alone to work, and it flat out doesn't. Not to mention the tab related extensions turned an already unstable browser into a crashing hell.
I want to like Firefox, I really do, but it's just so terrible that I find I am compeletely unable to.
The biggest thing outside of those two, relatively simple things is that I cannot configure damned-near anything in the Options, so what the hell is it for?
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Is it just me, or does this sound like functionality that has been available in Opera for some time now?
Nobody knows, since no one pays for a web browser, regardless of feature-set.