Why I dumped IE

Mozilla Firefox is de webbrowser van Mozilla. Volg in geval van problemen eerst onze standaard diagnose.
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Why I dumped IE

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Charles Cooper, de 'big boss' van CNET heeft zonet een mooi artikel geschreven over Firefox. Het is de moeite om te lezen.

In de reacties kwam ik dit tegen:
For security reasons, we use Mozilla and FireFox exclusively. We have also set our firewall up to forbid IE from contacting anything on the web without obtaining explicit operator permission.

We have encountered only a very few sites where the implementers were dumb enough to use nonstandard, IE-only features to present their vital company data to the world.

In these cases, we have found that an e-mail to the MARKETING department will almost always produce a "cure" within a week...sometimes much faster. Don't waste time writing to the web technical support folks: they caused the problem, and probably won't understand that their site is defective. Their own marketing and/or management folks will remind them who they are working for (not Microsoft) and what the web site is for.

After all, who wants to pay to publish an advertisement which cannot be read?
Dit is misschien nuttig om weten...
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Ik had het wel vermeld op de voorpagina van MozBrowser, maar wist niet dat het hier om de grote baas van CNet ging :)
Ook dit stukje vind ik wel aardig (2e en 3e alinea althans):
By the third try, Internet Explorer had pulled even and later became the better Web-browsing application. The rest is history. Unfortunately for Web surfers, it's as if the calendar stopped in 1999.

Actually, that last statement is not fully accurate. There is one major change you can ascribe to Internet Explorer: The PC browser world is in much worse shape. Because management took so long to tackle Internet Explorer's security woes, Microsoft allowed virus writers to exploit vulnerabilities in the browser and wreak untold havoc on unsuspecting computer users.

I've always been impressed with how taken Microsoft's execs are with their technology. With a nearly $8 billion R&D budget, you would expect that much of what Microsoft cooks up in its labs should be quite good. So why hasn't the Web browser substantially advanced since the end of the browser wars?
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nirwana schreef:Ik had het wel vermeld op de voorpagina van MozBrowser, maar wist niet dat het hier om de grote baas van CNet ging :)
Hij is executive editor van CNET News. Dus niet 'groot' groot, maar toch al heel groot ;-)


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ByteWarrior schreef:Hij is executive editor van CNET News. Dus niet 'groot' groot, maar toch al heel groot ;-)


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Via Asa's comments:
One correction: Charles Cooper is the exectutive editor of COMMENTARY at c|net news.com. Not the head news wrangler.
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nirwana schreef:One correction: Charles Cooper is the exectutive editor of COMMENTARY at c|net news.com. Not the head news wrangler.
Ow... dan is 't al heel wat minder natuurlijk. Toch nog het vermelden waard, maar het had leuker geweest had het de 'big boss' geweest. :-)
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