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Microsoft hijacking HTML

Microsoft hijacking HTML

Posted Aug 17, 2006 23:35 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Better late than never by NRArnot
Parent article: Coming soon: a free Java

Microsoft failed to hijack HTML? That's the first I've heard of that opinion. In my view, IE is the standard. It's the only standard worth recognizing for a browser: the standard to which websites are designed.

I used to use IE a lot (not so much since I installed Firefox on my Windows system and found it 99% IE-compatible), and I didn't hate it for being bugridden; it always seems to work for me. The only thing I hate about IE is its lack of function.


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Microsoft hijacking HTML

Posted Aug 24, 2006 13:19 UTC (Thu) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

I thought it was very successful in its main area of functionality, that
of introducing viruses, spyware, adware, trojans and various other bits
of badness to those unfortunate enough to have to use Windows.. ?

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