Re: Internet Explorer Vulnerability Exploited Agai
Rattus and Chamenos, poking a little fun at another MSIE security problem is
not bashing MS and is not advocating another way of computing.
MSIE came free with MS Windows, Apple Macintosh and probably other computer OS's as well. It is not in any way associated exclusively with MS Windows and not using MSIE will not forego your using whatever platform and OS you might wish to use.
Now, back to actual cases: The default browser out of the box for my computer and OS was MSIE. That does not mean I will gleefully use it, just because it's there.
Yes, it works without problem on more web sites than any other browser - that's because so many are "designed" to work best with MSIE rather than following the W3C standards. Those little "special" things that
MS Front Page does to page design that only MSIE responds to (and that in turn break the standards) so that other browsers specificly cannot view the page correctly are a good example. *
Thing is, computer security is more important to me than seeing some inane site. I'll pass, thank you, on using MSIE and seeing a few sites that I probably didn't really need to see, anyway. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
(I actually don't recall suggesting anyone switch to a different OS in any of my posts on CPF. If something is brought up that is different between clients, mentioning it is perfectly legit. Poking fun at ANY software that holds the current world record on problems ought to be legit, too. If that causes some sort of anxeiety in users of that software, it shouldn't. What should cause anxiety are the security problems.)
One last comment, guys, I've been the first to post about many of the MS problems coming up, and have posted many of the fixes. That's a
good thing to do, right? I
do try to get the problems fixed, even though they don't affect me. I
do post warnings and fixes. I also make fun of things like the number of security fixes from MS matching the number of weeks so far in this year. It's a natural. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Let's face it, there's more MagLites than any of the other lights we talk about here - that doesn't make them the best, and that doesn't make them immune to jokes and derision. The same should apply to MS.
At least one of the guys here can even argue that his job forces him to use a stock MagLite, just like others are forced by work to use a specific OS or other software.
If I step over the line and say something hurtful or not true about Microsoft or Mag Instruments, I'm sure that someone will let me know. Until I do, though ... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
* Earlier Microsoft was once again "bashed" for something that MS was doing on it's commercial sites. Another browser I don't use, Opera, was being specificly identified by their web pages and being served some alternative HTML and such that broke the display of the pages when browsing with Opera.
An interesting proof of this, brought out in the tech press was that Opera can "spoof" who it is and can tell the page that it is something else.
With no changes other than saying it wasn't Opera, Opera could display the pages perfectly because IT WASN'T BEING FED THE SPECIFICLY BROKEN CODE so long as the page was simply told it was some other browser.
Microsoft of course claimed this was just a grevious error, and changed their commercial sites. (MS Front Page still has some of these sorts of tricks built in - any wonder why all the OTHER browsers seem to have problems that MSIE doesn't?)
Personally I use Camino for 99% of my browsing, Safari for some, iCab for a tiny bit, and if I absolutely have to I can load MSIE from a CD-ROM to use on a temp basis.
EDITED to correct an error in the footnote ...