Posts by CorpusCani

Microsoft goes green to win IE 8 and Bing users

MS web dominance...

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Since when was the web Microsoft's? Never. They've tried enough times to move in and take it over, but they failed and what with the growing importance of little internet dohickeys that don't run windows the lock-out tactic they favour is looking more pathetic than ever.

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They've not given up yet though... they're still trying to dominate the web; but from both sides, server and client:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/06/17/june_2009_web_server_survey.html

Microsoft bribes Oz to ditch Firefox

Yoiks...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx

I REALLY wish I hadn't read that, I felt a rash of sudden anger and vitriol nearly explode out of me...

IE8 MORE standards compliant my arse... and its CSS implementation is buggy.

There appears to be a bug with the min-height attribute when styling a unique element by "id", the content ceases to define the height so, with overflow: hidden, it'll get cropped - it's fine if you assign the styles inline or by "class". The cascade inheritance model seems to be somewhat broken - any styling associated with an "id" takes precedence over anything else. So if you define an "id" style in an external CSS file it will override any inline styles that should take precedence - you normally wouldn't want to do that anyway but I was trying to work around the previous height bug.

Internet Explorer 8; It a stinky pile of old shit - just marginally less stinky and less shit than previous versions.

Tories research increased net censorship

Check the Web

Yesh - they have to limit it to Islamic extremists otherwise they'd have to spy on El Reg comments pages...

I'll be the one stockpiling fertilizer, charcoal and buckets of my own wee in preparation for the revolution... although it would probably be easier to buy C4 and detonators over the web. More reliable too, I'm not 100% convinced of my skill as a chemist :)

EC rejects Microsoft's browser promises

Uhm...

Personally I can't see a problem with what MS were offering to do anyway... Win7 without the IE GUI (not getting into what goes on under the bonnet) - saying "We'll not put IE on" is FINE.

MS don't sell computers it should be up to the OEMs to decide which browsers they want to pre-install - you'll still get a computer with a browser, just that it might not be IE (Google could pay PC World a wodge to install Chrome for instance).

The only people who'd be affected by the unbundling of IE would be PC self-builders (like me) who might have to download a browser from another PC (work, library, whatever) or get one on a disk; not exactly a huge hardship.

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Then what about the fact Mac OSX, Linux and UNIX flavours don't supply browser choice? Why is it only anti-competitive if Microsoft forces their browser on someone but not Apple?

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And for the 10,000,000th time to everyone who's posted something like the above:

MICROSOFT ARE A DOMINANT MONOPOLY - DIFFERENT RULES APPLY

Now write that on the blackboard 1000 times until you get it