Firefox's biggest obstacle is lazy programming by Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia -- The biggest obstacle facing widespread adoption of the Firefox browser is lazy programming - not from the Mozilla Foundation but from corporates that have not tested their applications with anything but IE.
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The article goes on to explain that this is done to keep testing costs down, and until now, the short-sightedness of the ones making these decisions have trapped large industry into IE.
Microsoft is indeed pressured to improve IE now with Firefox gaining in popularity. Short of a complete rewrite though, I expect to see more of the same, i.e. masking security problems only to have more appear.
On my desktop at least, IE is no threat to my browser of choice.
12/04/04: Misconception: Firefox "breaks" things.
Firefox's biggest obstacle is lazy programming by Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia -- The biggest obstacle facing widespread adoption of the Firefox browser is lazy programming - not from the Mozilla Foundation but from corporates that have not tested their applications with anything but IE. --
The article goes on to explain that this is done to keep testing costs down, and until now, the short-sightedness of the ones making these decisions have trapped large industry into IE. Microsoft is indeed pressured to improve IE now with Firefox gaining in popularity. Short of a complete rewrite though, I expect to see more of the same, i.e. masking security problems only to have more appear. On my desktop at least, IE is no threat to my browser of choice.