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Re: Now THAT'S Innovation!

Just think if the DOJ hadn't gotten in the way. We might've had a decent UI or "trustworthy computing" by now.


Sheeesh, when will governments get out of the way and let the real innovators work?



I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic here. I think you are, but the message isn't entirely clear.
Regardless, I'd like to point out that including a feature taht has existed in every other browser for three years can hardly be called innovation. IE has A LOT of catching up to do with the other browsers:

* It is getting pop-up blocking 3 years late.
* It still doesn't have such basic features as tabbed browsing. Every other major brwoser does. Once you've used tabs for a while you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.
* It's security is dismal. Every other browser is far more secure.
* IE's suport of web standards is worse than dismal. I know, I am a web very skilled developer. All my websites are 100% compliant with XHTML Strict 1.0 and CSS2. They all display great on every browser straight away, and I always have to spend an eternity trying to kludge it into working in IE because IE balantly ignores all the standards. It is very difficult to make a website which is accessible to people with disabilities and still renders okay under IE.

I assume that your comment about "trustworthy computing" was a joke too. Right?

It's not like any of those features are meant to make computing more trustworthy for users. They are meant so Holywood producers can trust your computer to do what THEY want instead of what YOU want. Don't take me wrong. I strongly oppose piracy of movies and mosic, but Trustowrthy Computing is a feature for content distributors, not users.

May I point out that MS has the worst security track record o f the industry.

It's really frustrating to see what passes as "news" over here.

Posted by: dcarrera   Posted on: 11/10/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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