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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: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.

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

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

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.