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- Jamiehutber0
Wait what?! IE9's been out for years!!
- animatedgif0
Internet Explorer
1995-2012
Rest In Piss
- nb0
Wouldn't it be great if this latest security hole was the beginning of the end for IE?
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- utopian0
Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web Browser Has a Security Flaw.
Microsoft on Sunday warned about a flaw affecting versions 6 through 11 of its flagship browser. The coding flaw would allow hackers to have the same level of access on a network computer as the official user, Microsoft said, which is a best-case scenario for intruders.
- ukit0
Actually this comment by a Microsoft employee (from a story Arstechnica did about the failure of the Kin) is good insight...bureaucracy and incompetence mixed with arrogance.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft…
Makes it easier to understand why projects like IE languish in failure for so long.
- ukit0
Having consulted at Microsoft for a couple months, it's a lot like the world described in one of Kafka's novels...
- janne760
mojo you should learn to read better. damnit, why are you like this?
- acescence0
microsoft didn't achieve market dominance by writing good software, i'm not convinced they're capable.
- raf0
Microsoft has a different approach to projects from companies that are now getting ahead. Google or Apple have small teams and every team manager has technical background and experience, thus understands the projects better.
Microsoft's solution to get a stalled project done is very army-like: "throw more people on it".
Apple's "Remote" app for the iPhone was reportedly written by one programmer.
- ItTango0
Honestly... MS has the brain trust to build anything they want. Ability is not an issue.
But when your goal is to "design something for everyone", which is what MS believes they are doing, the best you will ever achieve is mediocrity.
- ukit0
People not upgrading from XP is going to be the big roadblock in moving the web forward...
Just wait, the media will figure this out and be all over the story in about a year
- raf0
If this isn't an opportunity to get rid of IE, I don't know when there's going to be one. The only way to kill IE is to stop supporting it, or – when supporting – inform of alternatives.
The most heard excuse to keep IE6 alive was "some people in corporations aren't allowed to upgrade".
Seriously... who cares? People in corporations should not be browsing the web at work. They can keep their IEs and use them for their lame intranets.
- lukus_W0
I don't want to have to buy Windows 7 to run IE9.
- ernexbcn0
@Mojo we are talking about browsers, not which company is more evil or bad. Your post is moronic.
- MrT0
That's the 9 lives up, time to properly dIE now please.
- raf0
"As a matter of fact, IE9′s support for CSS3 visual styling is so poor that the results are shocking. Firefox, Chrome and Safari can render graphically rich interfaces using the sophisticated features of CSS3. IE9 does, well, rounded corners. That’s why I’m saying: IE9 is the IE6 of CSS3. Repeat that a few times until it sinks in because if you do Web development, you’re going to have to deal with it."
IE9 is the IE6 of CSS3
http://css3wizardry.com/2010/08/…
- ukit0
^ I don't get it though. They say Acid test doesn't matter because " there are different degrees of supporting a standard." Then they show the example of round corners with a dotted outline, and that in webkit the dots are a bit off. It's awesome the IE9 will finally support rounded, but is rendering a dotted outline really all that important in the grand scheme of things? More important to me would be that both browsers support rounded corners.
If implementation of a standard varies slightly between browsers, that doesn't strike me as a very good excuse for just refusing to implement new features at all. Maybe the truth is that IE is making up for lost time in terms of their decision to support these features, and they are still a ways behind the other guys.
- zarkonite0
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