__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 27 July 2006 16:46 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Ivan Groznii <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>
>>> Opera UI ripoff and Firefox feature ripoff. It's almost as bad as the
>>> multitude of Web 2.0 copycats. Then again, come to consider how Internet
>>> Explorer began: Netscape ripoff, then fraudulent tactics to elbow it out
>>> of the way and derail its user base using non-standard 'HTML'.
>>
>> IE's implementation of CSS makes me want to scream in pain; I utterly
>> hate how it renders. 7 is better but not by much.
>>
>> Opera and Firefox on Linux are class.
>
> True, for Roy, above, though, IE was a development of mosaic - Microsoft
> bought the code from a University (forget which one) and then made it
> proprietary. Oddly enough, Mosaic had been originally developed by the
> guys who went on to form netscape. IE is yet another Microsoft
> purchase...
So it's a case of purchase & extend (e.g. ActiveX). Xen virtualisation comes
to mind, as well as that Mac program for photographers (shall we expect
Windows Media Photo (WMP) with Microsoft DRM?).
Best wishes,
Roy
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