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Re: Another misleading subject line on an off-topic post from Roy

  • Subject: Re: Another misleading subject line on an off-topic post from Roy
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 10:58:50 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <1352766.5O1WVtUXKJ@schestowitz.com> <reply_in_group-6A59A7.14561131122006@news.supernews.com> <en9rlq$2og$01$1@news.t-online.com>
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Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Tim Smith wrote:
> 
>> In article <1352766.5O1WVtUXKJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>  Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> IE6 vs Firefox vs Firefox vs Safari
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | This is the Acid 2 test done on a 13 inch black MacBook running
>>> | Parallels Beta 3 with coherence running from a boot camp partition.
>>> | The open browsers are IE6 (left), Firefox for Windows (Top middle),
>>> | Bonecho for mac (optimized Firefox build for intel, bottom middle),
>>> | and Safari (Right).
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/41384028@N00/339365515/
>> 
>> The photo shows IE and Firefox both botching Acid 2.  Why did you title
>> the post
>> 
>>    "The Reason Web Designers Hate Internet Explorer (and Microsoft)"
>> 
>> instead of
>> 
>>    "The Reason Web Designers Hate Firefox"?
>> 
>> Furthermore, since Linux and Windows perform equally badly at this task,
> 
> Did you read "linux" somewhere in that description? It was Firefox on
> windows. Linux was not even used in that comparison
> 
>> how is this a Linux advocacy post?
>> 
> 
> Well, open it with Konqueror.
> It renders it perfectly. Last I heard Konq runs on linux

Besides, as Timmy knows very well, Firefox can be fixed, whereas IE
cannot - it's Microsoft, so will never be fixed.

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