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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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