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A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw
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."
I'm the first to make a comment.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
Watch me go!!!
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?
=^..^= all your rodent are belong to us
Not only did you fail to get first post, but you weren't even close. The English language lacks the ability to express the sheer magnitude of your monumentally epic failure; CowboyNeal's waist is anemic by comparison. I would suggest you try again, but failing so spectacularly has probably left both your body and mind in a highly unstable state. It's probably best for everyone involved if you just killed yourself. But you would probably just fail at that, too. Sometimes you just can't win.
Please fix bugs in firefox first before fixing other browsers. kthx.
But still, improving it that way... It feels like they are doing this just to insult them... Wow
Silly man, wherever did you get the idea that criticisms around here are based on merit?
mod parent funny, you morons
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?
The term "acute stupidity" does not begin to cover this. It's almost too painful to read.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo