Re: GEEK GRRL! Episode 4

> actually Microsoft supports open standards better than many others... such
> as Netscape and Sun... :-)

Since when ?  This statement is soo seriouly wrong you will have to prove it!
Microsoft usually does'nt give a shit about current standards and tried to enforce their
own on people.

Remember when they declared Ascii-art dead since they "innovated" the great new technology
called HTMLmail (which enabled you to recieve more virus's and bloat faster than ever
before.. mnn real "progress" )

Are we still creating ascii-art ? .. Damn right we are !

> The browser does not define HTML standards... in fact Netscape's
> non-standard extensions were/are divisive when it comes to designing web
> sites...

The earlier version were .. and the earlier Ie's were even more so .. most of the DOM in
IE is nonstandard and only works in Microsoft browsers .. (besides it's buggy as hell ..
I've had sooo many headache's with it)

> Netscape still does not support CSS like IE
> does...

You are right .. It's support is MUCH better!
Try a recent Netscape (6.1) or Mozilla .. you will see that it's CSS1 and CSS2 support is
near perfect (you will probably need to browse www.w3.org pages to see this as the w3
consortium is some of the few that uses this)


> > Why do you think no PC manufacturer offers preinstalled dual-boot
> > Windows + Linux? Its forbidden in the Windows OEM license.
>
> Yeah... I agree here... Microsoft should not have the power to restrict what
> software gets loaded...

The courts have already ruled that .. strangely nothing seems to have been done about
forcing MS to actually obey the rulings .. they still push software on people .. the next
big target for takeover is the Instant messenger .. ICQ is the main competitor.
The MSN Messenger is closely integrated in the WinXP OS and you cannot uninstall it in any
normal way ..
You can however hack the install files to make it possible .. but how many normal users
would/could do this ?


Sincerly
CeeJay