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.
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.
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Royce Mitchell III