Warp wrote:
> John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> Tim Cook wrote:
>>> Basically, it grudgingly admits that IE8 is a little bit better in a 
>>> particular aspect, then dismissing it as irrelevant, where with any 
>>> other browser, any speed increase would be trumpeted as the greatest 
>>> thing since sliced breat (especially if it were for a Mac).
> 
>> Now you know how Amiga users feel.  When and where the Amiga did things 
>> better or faster, it somehow wasn't important... until the Wintel 
>> platform caught up.
> 
>   I *honestly* think the speed issue *is* mostly irrelevant in this case.
> 
>   As I already commented, safety, stability and implementation of standards
> vastly overwhelm it in importance. IE has a sad history in this area, and
> it's not going to redeem itself overnight. Especially not with something
> as irrelevant as being some fractions faster.

And they're certainly not going to make any friends with the FireFox 
plug-in mentioned in the thread "Warning: Microsoft silently installing 
firefox extension" above...

I wonder how difficult it would be to whip together some HTML that only 
displays on non-compliant browsers, saying that something awful is going 
to happen unless the user installs some non-IE product...

Regards,
John

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