Re: [dylug] Mozilla Warns of Firefox Security Holes

> A more serious issue came to my knowledge and i would like to share it with
> all. This one is specially for all my firefox loving friends who
> particularly hated my post against it. ( i am laughing ... u bet i am ) 

Hey... interesting mail ... Varun :)

But its kinda old :)) (Thank heavens!!) Many of the bugs mentioned
(like the IDN security flaw) have already been fixed in Firefox -- I
don't have the link... you can find it in Slashdot
(http://www.slashdot.org/).

Just came across this link the other day... Its an open letter that
Opera had written to MS about IE:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/11/hakon_on_ms_interroperability/

Well... among others... it talks about MS's utter disregard for
standards and stuff... and highlights how MS hasn't even bothered to
fix any (CSS) bugs since 2001... (forget security... I could cite a
million examples... lets leave that for later)... Hmmm... why bother
about something as seemingly trivial as CSS? Well... for starters...
for all of you into serious web dev, you probably know that things
like rounded corners... dynamic menus and loads of other stuff... all
can be created with a few lines of CSS... too bad IE doesnt support
it.... it may not sound like much... but when the majority of IE web
developers see it, they'll think they've died and gone to computer
heaven ;)

Yes, its about bringing technology to the people... as you rightly
mentioned ... and Firefox -- with its standards-compliance, support
for bleeding-edge technologies etc... is only trying to get there...
too bad IE's acting so mulish for no reason... and only thwarting
technological progress (!!) in the process...

Bottomline: Choose what you will ;)