I agree with you, Microsoft has really let down their customers by trailing behind in the browser world. I don't have a problem with Microsoft, and If I sit down at a windows box I would prefer to be able to use the built in browser, but unfortunately it rarely provides even the most basic functionality/support. I recall reading a microsoft blog from the developers tasked with updating IE, and they kept saying "No, we didn't have a chance to make IE pass |insert any rendering test here|" or "No, we didn't get time for that feature either, we were too busy on security".
I understand that becuase of IE's integration into windows that security may be more complex than for Firefox, but I can't fathom why microsoft can't summon the resources to handle both security issues AND features.
On something like Outlook web access, it is always a bit of a trade off using firefox, as the integrated security features are of course not available as they would be with IE, so you will typically have to log in manually... And in addition, those microsoft built pages typically behave better with IE. I personally do the same as you mentioned though, using firefox to access my outlook web access, sharepoint, etc.
I agree with the other posters that of course the IE vulnerability is far more of a threat than firefox's inconvience of freezing on this sort of script. I never meant to say otherwise. Although I must say that I am unable to get the IE vulnerability to expose itself, my IE just crashes/freezes up, even on lowest security settings, which appears to be the effect most people get. Perhaps the vulnerability is not as widespread as originally though? Or maybe it was a bad implementation of the exploit.
Regardless, I will continue to use firefox for consistency across operating systems and its ability to avoid most spyware/adware/etc.
I've been searching everywhere to actually find a copy of this patent. I was able to find some minor documentation of its existence but that was all in German and hard to sort through.
Has anyone found the text of this patent? Or atleast a more robust summary of it.
In my experience we have been more successful with Online advertising opposed to print (magazine) advertising. This is for a software company though, who's users are more likely to be online.
Also, perhaps you can get alot more advertising for the same money, when doing it online.
Before everyone gets too worked up bashing IE, as in the previous few articles on this exploit, let's remember that this problem was freezing/crashing FireFox 1.5 also. Although the security threat isn't existent in FireFox, the browser still fails on these pages.
Now before I get flamed, let it be known that I think IE is a disaster and it's lack of standards compliance is one of the main things holding back proper advancment in web technologies, but we don't want to go and be unfair when our browser crashes too!
At the risk of wandering offtopic, I've got to simply voice my appreciation for the services that Wikipedia provides. The entire Wikimedia suite amazes me, the fact that so many people can collaborate with very few issues to build something so helpful is a wonderful thing.
Probably a lesser known fact is that all database dumps of wikipedia are available for download in XML and other formats. This makes the data even more useful. Personally I have been using a massive dump of data from Wikimedia in some of my data mining projects, and i'm sure many others have found good use for it.
Although todays article about wikipedia is quite obviously (to all of us) a silly argument, we must keep in mind that not everyone shares our community-based-information outlook, nor our basic understanding of the technology.
That said, someone needs to just tell this guy about the 'Edit' button available on every page!
Alot of posts mention that this isn't exactly a new technology. Well of course that is true, people have been successfully using video chat for years, but I think what is important is that Skype makes this process simple and more accessible to the masses.
Of course MacOsX has some very easy to use video chat abilities, but Skype takes this even further by providing SDK/API for developers to build off of their technology.
Personally I'll most likely keep using other software packages, but I am very happy to see this technology becoming more mainstream, it is likely to help save people (and perhaps businesses) alot of time and money as these things work better and cost less.
I think if it was getting generally colder, the last thing you'd want to invest in is Ski resorts. Typically we try to invest in something that has a high demand, which, in the event of an ice age, would be warm places, not cold.
You'll thank me after the ice age.
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I agree with you, Microsoft has really let down their customers by trailing behind in the browser world. I don't have a problem with Microsoft, and If I sit down at a windows box I would prefer to be able to use the built in browser, but unfortunately it rarely provides even the most basic functionality/support. I recall reading a microsoft blog from the developers tasked with updating IE, and they kept saying "No, we didn't have a chance to make IE pass |insert any rendering test here|" or "No, we didn't get time for that feature either, we were too busy on security".
I understand that becuase of IE's integration into windows that security may be more complex than for Firefox, but I can't fathom why microsoft can't summon the resources to handle both security issues AND features.
On something like Outlook web access, it is always a bit of a trade off using firefox, as the integrated security features are of course not available as they would be with IE, so you will typically have to log in manually... And in addition, those microsoft built pages typically behave better with IE. I personally do the same as you mentioned though, using firefox to access my outlook web access, sharepoint, etc.
I agree with the other posters that of course the IE vulnerability is far more of a threat than firefox's inconvience of freezing on this sort of script. I never meant to say otherwise. Although I must say that I am unable to get the IE vulnerability to expose itself, my IE just crashes/freezes up, even on lowest security settings, which appears to be the effect most people get. Perhaps the vulnerability is not as widespread as originally though? Or maybe it was a bad implementation of the exploit.
Regardless, I will continue to use firefox for consistency across operating systems and its ability to avoid most spyware/adware/etc.
I've been searching everywhere to actually find a copy of this patent. I was able to find some minor documentation of its existence but that was all in German and hard to sort through.
Has anyone found the text of this patent? Or atleast a more robust summary of it.
In my experience we have been more successful with Online advertising opposed to print (magazine) advertising. This is for a software company though, who's users are more likely to be online.
Also, perhaps you can get alot more advertising for the same money, when doing it online.
Before everyone gets too worked up bashing IE, as in the previous few articles on this exploit, let's remember that this problem was freezing/crashing FireFox 1.5 also.
Although the security threat isn't existent in FireFox, the browser still fails on these pages.
Now before I get flamed, let it be known that I think IE is a disaster and it's lack of standards compliance is one of the main things holding back proper advancment in web technologies, but we don't want to go and be unfair when our browser crashes too!
At the risk of wandering offtopic, I've got to simply voice my appreciation for the services that Wikipedia provides. The entire Wikimedia suite amazes me, the fact that so many people can collaborate with very few issues to build something so helpful is a wonderful thing.
Probably a lesser known fact is that all database dumps of wikipedia are available for download in XML and other formats. This makes the data even more useful. Personally I have been using a massive dump of data from Wikimedia in some of my data mining projects, and i'm sure many others have found good use for it.
Although todays article about wikipedia is quite obviously (to all of us) a silly argument, we must keep in mind that not everyone shares our community-based-information outlook, nor our basic understanding of the technology.
That said, someone needs to just tell this guy about the 'Edit' button available on every page!
Alot of posts mention that this isn't exactly a new technology. Well of course that is true, people have been successfully using video chat for years, but I think what is important is that Skype makes this process simple and more accessible to the masses.
Of course MacOsX has some very easy to use video chat abilities, but Skype takes this even further by providing SDK/API for developers to build off of their technology.
Personally I'll most likely keep using other software packages, but I am very happy to see this technology becoming more mainstream, it is likely to help save people (and perhaps businesses) alot of time and money as these things work better and cost less.
I think if it was getting generally colder, the last thing you'd want to invest in is Ski resorts. Typically we try to invest in something that has a high demand, which, in the event of an ice age, would be warm places, not cold. You'll thank me after the ice age.