Lizard fights back

[meow]

Ho-ho-ho! I see all the coders that have said "90% use IE anyway so why should I care?" squirm and I rejoice. Here comes standards, baby! :birthday:

(Same article - choose your favourite)
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24364.html

NewsForge | Exclusive: AOL embraces Linux and Mozilla, plans to drop MS Explorer
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/08/1957252&mode=thread

Guess it has only been a matter of time. After all they own Netscape but have had to wait until their IE contracts run out.
:jump:

[Ben]

YESSSSS! Finally AOL is coming back from the 'dark' side :D



From the NewsForge Article:
The Gecko rendering engine at the heart of the Mozilla Web browser is scheduled to replace Microsoft's Internet Explorer as AOL's default browser -- the one in the millions of free AOL CDs distributed every year -- in the 8.0 version of AOL's client software. (The current version is 7.0.) The Gecko rendering engine is already being shipped as a "beta" test product in some CompuServe client software packages, and reports from CompuServe users who have chosen to use Gecko instead of Explorer have been described as "very positive." This customer feedback is an important part of AOL's browser decision process. "We hear the question, 'What is the member impact?' whenever we are faced with a technical decision," says one of our contacts. And so far, it sounds like member impact of an AOL switch from Explorer to Gecko will be almost entirely positive.

[meow]

Let me kiss you HTML-Guru! :biggrin2:

[Ben]

Originally posted by meow
Let me kiss you HTML-Guru! :biggrin2:

Let me find a way out of here :nervous:

[meow]

Aw c'mon you dry stick, let's do the cha-cha! :biggrin2:

[Jan]

Another Netscape fan here I think :biggrin2:

http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=4210

[meow]

Nah, it isn't about Netscape or IE for me. It's about standards or tricky proprietary coding. Today they all fight about who can make the most standard compliment browser, including MS (they lose, taa-taa! :p). But since versions 6 of both IE and Netscape/Moz can run in quirk mode and render pages in the old, bad way the IE dominance has allowed authors to keep to their IE only old ----.

If AOL at last turns their millions of users to the Moz engine it means those days are over. I don't want any browser to win. I want many browsers using the same ----in' standard.

Thank you Mr. Zeldman (http://www.webstandards.org/) , I kiss you too. ;)

[Webdude]

AOL....I wouldnt be cheering for that monopoly either. They are as evil if not more than Microsoft. Their Netscape 6 sucked. By the way, you do realize that after AOL's contract with Microsoft expires that will will be in for an immediate lawsuit from Microsoft that could cripple AOL dont you? All those millions of AOL users using AOL software that is using an "out of licensed" version of Internet Explorer. That means AOL is liable, not the user.

That's good though. Once again they will be too locked into battle with each other to be able to concentrate on anything else, and their competitors can grow up a bit without too much worry about getting hammered back down.

Personally I root for Microsoft. They have given back more than AOL ever will. Gates himself has given away ungodly amounts of charity to the world... AOL simply gives away snail mail spam..

[Haze]

Originally posted by Webdude
AOL....I wouldnt be cheering for that monopoly either. They are as evil if not more than Microsoft. Their Netscape 6 sucked. By the way, you do realize that after AOL's contract with Microsoft expires that will will be in for an immediate lawsuit from Microsoft that could cripple AOL dont you? All those millions of AOL users using AOL software that is using an "out of licensed" version of Internet Explorer. That means AOL is liable, not the user.

That's good though. Once again they will be too locked into battle with each other to be able to concentrate on anything else, and their competitors can grow up a bit without too much worry about getting hammered back down.

Personally I root for Microsoft. They have given back more than AOL ever will. Gates himself has given away ungodly amounts of charity to the world... AOL simply gives away snail mail spam..

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[Dusty]

That's refreshing news.

And so it was written. "And the beast shall be made LEGION". Now we must stand by for the prophesied, for when "the followers of Mammon shall TREMBLE".

:D

* Mammon - NOUN: 1. Bible Riches, avarice, and worldly gain personified as a false god in the New Testament. 2. often mammon Material wealth regarded as having an evil influence. You only need one guess who Mammon is...

[meow]

Webdude, I wasn't cheering for AOL (that isn't more than an evil rumor to me anyway). I'm cheering because if all the AOL users use Moz it will mean diversity enough to break the bad coding habits. The old browser war is over long ago.

Why can't one never even mention browsers without getting into this Microsoft versus Netscape ----? I don't give a damn' which of them that is the biggest.