A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @09:11AM 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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Re:Sad or happy day in Redmond? by EdIII · 2008-08-20 10:03 · Score: 1, Redundant

The part I don't understand is why you would go with IE in the first place. If you have problems with IE, or need rendering support that Firefox has, why not just download the whole Firefox in the first place?
Re:Er... by jeremypv · 2008-08-20 10:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

next: IE plugin that will make it use gecko to render pages.

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