A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw 270
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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Sad or happy day in Redmond? (Score:5, Funny)
Is it a sad or happy day for Microsoft, when their competitors get bored with beating them, and instead try to improve the Microsoft products to make them competitive - for free?
Screaming Monkey.... (Score:5, Funny)
BURRNNNNN (Score:1, Funny)
To: M$
From: KindFolk@mozilla.org
Subject: U JUS GOT BITCHSLAPPED!
Internet explorer... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:HTML5 is a standard now? (Score:5, Funny)
Well i'll be darned, I guess someone should call the XHTML2 camp and tell them they lost the war!
Nah, don't bother them. They're busy working on the HD-DVD website.
Re:Er... (Score:5, Funny)
it makes MS and closed source look bad if Mozilla/open source fix their deficiencies.
Duuuude, that's the beauty of MS and closed source - they don't *need* Mozilla/open source to make them look bad!
Re:Sad or happy day in Redmond? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Er... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Er... (Score:5, Funny)
And then that jock gets a job in the city rec department, and his bangin' cheerleader girlfriend is a professional beautician, between them making as much as you do by yourself with your programming experience.
Stupid, non-applicable analogy aside, nobody else cares about whether they use IE or Firefox, but they sure as hell notice when things don't work right. This plugin will let people develop sites to standards that still work with IE, so companies should be ok with allowing their webdevs to work forward properly, and it'll have the side effect of proper sites making people sit up and take notice of their broken browser.
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Link doesn't work. Please fix.