classic

[Cyber Source]

The "classic" view of it all is a world as M$ sees it through M$ eyes. 
If people were installing Netscape in the first place there's a good 
chance they DIDN'T want to use IE anymore in the first place. I mean 
it's not a good thing to have applications/installations doing damage to 
other applications, I just wondered how many applications were boned by 
M$ applications/installations and if their response would have been to 
just uninstall their application. Yea right, don't think we would have 
seen that happening.

Dave Yearke wrote:

>>This stuff is just classic M$ bull. Now if there was an easy 
>>way to just uninstall IE instead, hmmmm........
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>http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&e=3&u=/cmp/20050528/tc_cmp/1637
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>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.
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>Here is one source of documentation on the problem:
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>http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39200178,00.htm
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>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.
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>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. :-)
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>-- Dave
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