Re: [ros-dev] Re: We have a web browser : Input ?

[barry day]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:54:58PM -0600, Royce Mitchell III wrote:
>   We may have to install it as both iexplore.exe as well
> as ibrowser.exe, 
>  because certain ill-behaved apps may look for iexplore.exe, and we want 
>  it to find the user's browser, regardless of whether they've installed 
>  MS's IE or are using ours.
>   
That should be left to the developer of the buggy app to fix. One of the 
reasons Windows has problems with malware is because of developers going about
things the wrong way. They need to be taught to do things correctly, not 
accommodated for.

[Royce Mitchell III]

barry day wrote:

>  That should be left to the developer of the buggy app
> to fix. One of the 
> reasons Windows has problems with malware is because of developers going about
> things the wrong way. They need to be taught to do things correctly, not 
> accommodated for.
>   
>  
never never never gonna happen.... IOW... dream on ;)

seriously... who's going to stop developers from doing stupid things?

Do end users care about developers doing things the wrong way?

If we even tried, the only thing we would do is alienate potential users 
of our OS, because their favorite killer app doesn't work on it.