August 22nd 2008

The First Step Is For Microsoft To Admit It Has A Problem Bookmark and Share

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Ars Technica brings word of a pair of interesting efforts underway over at the Mozilla Project — both aimed at improving Internet Explorer, whether Microsoft likes it or not.
You may have heard of the first one already: ScreamingMonkey has gotten some press. It aims to make the core of Firefox’s next-generation Javascript engine (originally [...]


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August 21st 2008

Microsoft Applies For Patent On Private Browsing Bookmark and Share

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PhilDEE writes “Microsoft is in the process of applying for two patents for a private browsing mode in their next version of Internet Explorer, a feature already present in Safari, among other browsers.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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August 20th 2008

A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw Bookmark and Share

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least_weasel writes “An article on Ars Technica reveals Mozilla’s intention to create and release a plugin for Internet Explorer that would allow the often-criticized IE to utilize some of the cooler rendering code developed for Firefox. The current WIP focuses on rendering using HTML5 standards, but the plans seem to be more ambitious than just [...]


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