classic

[Dave Yearke]

> This stuff is just classic M$ bull. Now if there was an easy 
> way to just uninstall IE instead, hmmmm........
> 
>
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&e=3&u=/cmp/20050528/tc_cmp/1637
01829

Something during Netscape 8's installation process clobbers IE's
XML rendering engine, which Netscape 8 tries to use when it is
rendering using IE's engine instead of its default Gecko engine.
This is pretty bad, and apparently not Microsoft's fault.

Here is one source of documentation on the problem:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39200178,00.htm

The solution cited in the Yahoo posting appears to be necessary
to repair the damage caused by Netscape's installer. The alternative
is to live with XML pages that don't render with the IE engine; you can
switch NS8 to use the Gecko engine exclusively, but then you lose an
important capability (and, yes, it is important for some people to
access web pages using the IE rendering engine). Netscape is working
on a fix, but this is the second big blunder they've made since NS8 was
released, and it's costing them from a publicity standpoint.

Of course, this is only a problem on Windows platforms, so users
of *x-like operating systems are probably using Mozilla, Firefox, or
Opera, and don't have anything to worry about from this. :-)

-- Dave