Warum habe ich immer Befürchtungen, wenn ich solche Kommentare von MS-Mitarbeitern lese.
"On XAML [a new markup language for building graphical user interfaces in Longhorn], if you look at the platform, it allows you to do completely new things that are not possible in any platform today. Why aren't we talking about making use of that platform technology in Mozilla?" Scoble told internetnews.com.
"Why don't we talk about new ways of making use of it in the browser? Is the browser that we have today the end of it? Can we not come up with a better way to do things?"
Da hat er sicher nicht unrecht.
"You don't take advantage of WinFS. These things are not threats to you. They are platform-level investments we're making for you to use. If you don't use them, I'm sure some other browser will (Opera?) and I'll switch to that."
Stimmungsmache wie man sie von MS kennt.
Brendan Eich hat recht mit:
"Mozilla integrates with Windows already, and will continue to do so," Eich told internetnews.com. "However, Mozilla applications and code are mostly cross-platform, and we try to maximize functionality on all operating systems. We especially avoid integrating too much with one operating system when that would lead to non-standard code, protocols, and formats leaking onto the public Internet."
"This problem has already occurred with the non-standard IE DOM [Document Object Model] and Windows-only Active X," Eich told internetnews.com. "It has resulted in a broken Web experience for Mac and Linux users on too many sites, even today."