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IBM Donates Code to Firefox

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the browser-arms-race dept.

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."

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  1. Desplit the Fork by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Who's found out where the FireFox code lives for getting the value (after is pressed) that was in the "URL" text input field? And the function that's called (after is pressed) with the data in the "Search" text input field? I'm pissed that the developers split that functionality of a single field (in Mozilla) into two (in FireFox), and I want to change it back. But I don't want to decipher the entire GUI/event codepath just to fix that design screwup. Who's got the landmarks, so I can hack the patch?

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  2. Re:MacOS8 by fracex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    P.S. I just woke up... don't make fun of my horrible spelling.

  3. Re:Firefox was a great idea. by FLAGGR · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Safari a replacement for FF? I don't think so. The second I got my mac, I loaded up Safari, expecting some revolution in browsing, a high quality app like GarageBand or something. Sure, it's better than IE, but its meh. First thing I did was download FF (which I then used to download X11 and all that fine stuff.) Safari doesn't support all the cool extensions FF has, like adblock and gmail notifier and slashfix (haha jk about that last one.)

    Safari is like, a lite weight browser, it just doesn't feel as good as FF. Oh and the combined stop/refresh button sucks. What the fuck. All the buttons are little pods, which goes against Apple's own HID standards (every button should have a distinct shape)

  4. Re:Article Text by Taladar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I believe Opera already has this feature for a long time due to the need to have this in their embedded version.

    There is also a mozilla based browser that already does this

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