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A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-screaming-monkey dept.

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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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Sad or happy day in Redmond? by ozamosi · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

    1. Re:Sad or happy day in Redmond? by Urger · · Score: 5, Funny

      Remember that many shops don't admin access to their computers and are stuck with IE because IT says so. Yes such places exist. They are not just a story your mother told you to scare you.

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  3. Screaming Monkey.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I take it Balmer is involved in some way?

  4. Re:HTML5 is a standard now? by oahazmatt · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:Er... by bane2571 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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