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Re: Why MS hubris can be a bit annoying
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Date: 
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:54:14 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Asher Kobin writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:

> > One browser indeed. The world needs more than one browser. They all
> > should render the same but the way they look at everything else can and
> > should be the same.
> 
> This seems to support what I talked about in an earlier post about Microsoft
> making the rederning engine part of the operating system.  Any developer can
> create their own user interface.  Please take a look at NeoPlanet
> (http://www.neoplanet.com/).  If you like IE but don't like the Micorosoft-
> feel of it, try NeoPlanet.

PMFJI, but most of the complaints lodged against MSIE (in this thread) have
been about the *engine*, not the GUI wrapper.  The issues discussed have been
how IE interprets various HTML constructs, and how it renders them onto the
display.

Nobody gives a rip about the wrapper.

Steve



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(...) although (...) I don't understand how your comment relates to what I said above. Please don't insult me saying that I don't have a clue. I'm not a mindless Microsoft drone. (...) This seems to support what I talked about in an earlier post (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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