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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. 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

  2. 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?