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[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Working around IE7s prompt bug, er feature
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>
>> | So while every other browser on the planet can handle javascript
>> | prompts -- and have done so, pretty much since javascript was
>> | first stuffed inside the browser -- Microsoft didn't have the
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> | resources to deal with it and so, effectively, disabled it.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Incredible, isn't it?
>
> It just shows you how they diverted resources from every nook and
> cranny at Redmond, in a last ditch attempt to get Vista out the
> door. Six years of stagnation, a veritable ghost-town, everywhere
> except in the Vista Development Broom Cupboard, and the result
> ... a steaming pile of nagware.
>
> Pretty sad really.
>
> Then again, does anyone ever really expect Microsoft to understand,
> let alone adhere to, standards ... much less do anything as prosaic as
> actually dedicate resources towards that goal.
>
They are regularly described as the world's richest company. One wonder
how it's possible for the world's richest company to be resource
strapped in the development of their core products. Unless...
Unless...
Unless...
... they no longer consider these things to be core?
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
When you're bored with yourself, marry, and be bored with someone else.
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