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A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw
least_weasel writes "An article on Ars Technica reveals Mozilla's intention to create and release a plugin for Internet Explorer that would allow the often-criticized IE to utilize some of the cooler rendering code developed for Firefox. The current WIP focuses on rendering using HTML5 standards, but the plans seem to be more ambitious than just fixing this one small piece of IE. The article covers some of the plans, hurdles, and potential benefits. It also spills the beans on the code name for the project: Screaming Monkey."
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Is it a sad or happy day for Microsoft, when their competitors get bored with beating them, and instead try to improve the Microsoft products to make them competitive - for free?
So I take it Balmer is involved in some way?
To: M$
From: KindFolk@mozilla.org
Subject: U JUS GOT BITCHSLAPPED!
Now with all of the features of Firefox, without the bother of all the security.
Well i'll be darned, I guess someone should call the XHTML2 camp and tell them they lost the war!
Nah, don't bother them. They're busy working on the HD-DVD website.
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
it makes MS and closed source look bad if Mozilla/open source fix their deficiencies.
Duuuude, that's the beauty of MS and closed source - they don't *need* Mozilla/open source to make them look bad!
Not sure how it works on IE but you can install firefox plugins on the fly. If that is true on IE, imagine sites that rather than saying "runs best on IE7" instead say "This is gonna look crap if you don't click here
And then that jock gets a job in the city rec department, and his bangin' cheerleader girlfriend is a professional beautician, between them making as much as you do by yourself with your programming experience.
Stupid, non-applicable analogy aside, nobody else cares about whether they use IE or Firefox, but they sure as hell notice when things don't work right. This plugin will let people develop sites to standards that still work with IE, so companies should be ok with allowing their webdevs to work forward properly, and it'll have the side effect of proper sites making people sit up and take notice of their broken browser.
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Link doesn't work. Please fix.