[Sigia-l] IE gives you more options? (was The future of WWW...

[Austin Govella]

Dave wrote:
> I'm just not buying the cry for Mozilla tone being presented here.
> Personally I have tried Mozilla and Safari and can honestly say I
> prefer the results as an end-user (not developer) I get w/ IE. As a
> developer, I much prefer just picking one of them (any of them) and
> honestly IE gives me more options than the others do and has been
> giving me those options for a longer period of time so I'm used to
> them.

While we drift way off-topic...

1. What options does IE provide that Mozilla does not? 
Seriously curious because this is something I should know.

> I just think that we OSS for the front-end has shown me no successes
> to date as a designer trying to solve real world problems compared to
> the closed solutions in my life: IE, Flash, Java, etc.

2. What does open-source have to do with common protocol? 
Flash, Java, and PDF use a common protocol, which is why 
there are so many Flash editors that all create Flash files. 
The same goes for Java and PDF.

Longhorn has nothing to do with OSS and everything to do 
with supplanting an existing set of protocols with new ones. 
I wouldn't mind if Longhorn were better, but Microsoft, 
generally, does not design better protocols for *users*.

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Austin