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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. tacit recognition of fail by theCat · · Score: 0, Troll

    I didn't RTFA to get their cut on this, but my opinion after many years as a web developer has been that MS more-or-less deliberately left IE borken just to make the web hard to use for most users. The security gaffs that left Windows pwnable might have been real issues, but I think the rest was a strategic gamble to keep people locked into the "your desktop is the only reality" Matrix-ish crapola that keeps them raking in the cash on OS and Office sales. Only the web sort of went ahead and won anyway, mostly. IE being F.U.B.A.R. is now just a sad joke.

    If that's the case, then IE should indeed by fixable, and probably easily. There might be former/reformed MS coders in the readership who could comment on this. Guys and gals; did you do as good a job on IE as you wanted to? Or was there a certain shaved ape making "suggestions" about priorities that left IE crippled?

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  2. Re:Er... by garobat · · Score: 1, Troll

    But still, improving it that way... It feels like they are doing this just to insult them... Wow

  3. Re:Er... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    mod parent funny, you morons

  4. Re:Er... by phillous · · Score: 1, Troll

    Funny story. At home I run Firefox (in a desperate attempt to keep hold of my "geek card").. and I've had to install an addon that allows me to run certain tabs using the IE rendering engine. Especially just after FF3 alot of webpages wouldnt load properly (facebook, and a few phpBB boards for example).

    So now I can have Firefox load pages the way IE does, and IE load pages the way FF does. Wonderful. Next week they'll announce software that actually always works without exception...

    What?

  5. Re:Ha ha by dedazo · · Score: 0, Troll

    The term "acute stupidity" does not begin to cover this. It's almost too painful to read.

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