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AOL turning their backs on MSIE for Mozilla??

Lemming · 2002-03-11 14:53:16

Got emailed this today by a friend. An article from the Register about how AOL are apparently preparing to turn from MSIE in favour of Mozilla/Gecko enabled browsers. Long live W3C!! (or something)

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11-03-2002 3:53pm

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Got emailed this today by a friend.

An article from the Register about how AOL are apparently preparing to turn from MSIE in favour of Mozilla/Gecko enabled browsers.

Long live W3C!! (or something)

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#2 13-03-2002 12:15pm
Terminator

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That's all us developers need - 37 million AOL users bouncing around our sites in dodgy browsers

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#3 13-03-2002 12:22pm
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Originally posted by Terminator
That's all us developers need - 37 million AOL users bouncing around our sites in dodgy browsers

They're not dodgy browsers since they conform to agreed international/company standards, namely W3C.

So in truth, its actually IE that is the dodgy browser.

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#4 13-03-2002 12:29pm
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The browsers may be fine in their own right but AOL is famous for its extremely dodgy proprietary software. How well the browsers would integrate into their own code is a cause for concern.

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