Of browsers and bugs
The folks over at Micro$oft recently started an IE blog now that Bill Gates has expressed his desire to start a weblog. That is a good thing per se. It is really entertaining to read what they have to say on the blog. They talk about taking IE towards better standards support while having a blog that does not validate even HTML 4.0 transitional. But some of the content (non-technical though) comes off as refreshing given the hard-nosed image that Micro$oft has.
One of the things that is readily apparent from IEblog is that everybody seems to be trying to say that they are unable to disclose detailed information about the vulnerabilites faced by IE. The reasons given for this range from security policies at Micro$oft to not letting ‘folks who want to find security holes and hurt Windows customers’ (their words, not mine!!) know about those vulnerabilites.
Hmmm…
I think someone should point them towards mozillaZine where the folks do not think in such terms while releasing updates to their browsers to rectify/patch the various security vulnerabilities that threaten them.
But then… thats just one of the differences between the best open source browser and Micro$oft!
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hey I din’t know the existence of this blog :) cool WP powered.
I am getting a blog redesign, its been in the offing for quite a while now.
Hey buddy… I just launched it a few days back. I have shut down my blog at Blogspot (I know it was a nightmare for non IE users!)
Oh yes, WP powered! WordPress is fantastic!! There are so many plugins available to customize the blog. And the support is fantastic too! :-)
Your blog looks great… why the redesign??
a certain bunch of friends, who are good at web designing and I have a long standing agreement. They get to design my site in exchange for a lunch/dinner :) the design has been approved waiting for the coder to write up the CSS. :)