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Originally Posted by Skippy the One Eyed Beagle
Firefox is designed to support Standard HTML.
The problem is that IE has "extended" HTML to support other features. These are outside of the standard.
Web pages are primarily developed to work with IE and take advantage of these "extentions" so these features often do not work in Firefox.
This basically forces users to use IE for some websites.
This "embrace and extend" strategy is one that Microsoft uses often. It is a predatory business tactic and is evil. |
I'm not an expert in this field, so help me out. Why doesn't they just design Firefox to support extended HTML? Or is that where the security weaknesses reside?