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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. Spill the beans? by EvilRyry · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been reading about this for months. Its not exactly top secret.

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tamarin:ScreamingMonkey

  2. Re:Interesting, but difficult by AKAImBatman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Java is already installed on most OEM computers. And as I mentioned in the last sentence, Flash can be used to create a similar shunt. Flash has even greater market penetration than Java. It's not 100%, but it's about as close as you can get. As a bonus, most users without Flash would be savvy enough to be using FireFox anyway. (Given that one has to actively AVOID having Flash installed these days.)

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  3. Re:FireFox by lilo_booter · · Score: 3, Informative

    It generally isn't though - for most people, it just comes across as though someone got the expression hideously wrong and negated the intention of their statement in the process.

  4. Re:Er... by colfer · · Score: 3, Informative

    From TFA: "Unfortunately, scripted manipulation of VML [with exCanvas] is too slow to be used for highly interactive web applications."

    Still it does seem crazy to expect enough people to install the plugin to make it universal enough for developers, as Flash is now.

    Then the rest of the article is about Adobe. "This is purely speculation, but If Adobe decided to ship [the new Moz plugin] as part of the next major iteration of the Flash plugin, it would rapidly accelerate adoption and get it onto lots of computers."

  5. Re:Look to the beam in your own eye by Ant+P. · · Score: 4, Informative

    You want SVG as background-image? Here you go. Fast enough to do this in realtime? I honestly couldn't say, I'm more excited that their CSS3 support is finally catching up to Konqueror 3.5.

  6. Re:Er... by larry+bagina · · Score: 4, Informative

    opera, safari, and firefox all support canvas natively. excanvas uses vml, which is ie specific.

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