__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 01 January 2007 10:58 \__
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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.
Closed source/proprietary software leads to bad support because support in
itself is a monopoly.
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