Off topic: IE7 was Re: [sdiy] Digital noise source project (replacing MN5837 in Prophet 5and Monopoly)

[jvastine]

As one who has been a programmer for more years than I care to recall, I do agree on this issue. It is a web publishers job to adhere to the standards as best they can There exist several good web browsers that are free, easy to install, and are customizable for the users needs. Firefox & Opera are the top in this category. I think that Opera is actually the better browser as it has a smaller footprint, uses less memory, and is faster.

The problem with all versions of IE is the fact that Microsoft attempted to create their own standards in an attempt to lock people into using their products. I personally find this distasteful to say the least and do not endorse any of Microsoft's products because of things like that. There are alternatives to the MS OS's that prove to be more secure and stable. I would suggest a recent Linux release for the majority on this list as they have matured and no longer require the user to tweak everything or fiddle with driver modifications. Plus you can't beat the value for the cost and there is a large library of open source software at your disposal too. Try downloading a live distro, which means that it runs from a cd without requiring any installation to the hard drive, then take it for a test drive. Try either Mandriva or Ubuntu as they are rather slick distros. Or one could always get a Mac!

Has anybody heard yet that MS is discontinuing their support for XP shortly? Seems that they are forcing everyone to upgrade to Vista. There is much that I could say about this, but I would get banned from the list for profanity! lol Anyway, it looks like now is a good time to migrate to Linux.

Regards,
jvastine

---- Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> wrote: 
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Donald Tillman wrote:

> Yes, it completely sucks, but that's what you have to do.

Why? I mean, obviously, the MSIEs seem to be broken, so why work around 
their defects?

Yes, I know -- they come preinstalled with Windows, but if everyone 
works around their defects, where's the incentive for Microsoft to 
fix them?

It's not like you would tweak your hardware to fulfill the needs of 
let's say a broken VCA where you would have to attenuate the signal to 
some nanovolts level to not get distorted, having to re-amplify it after 
the VCA.

You'd rather repair the VCA.

So why doing the opposite in software?

Rainer
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