Small digression moral and intellectual honesty of Internet Explorer
19 dicembre 2008, 14:45 Bugs , Logbook , Open Source , Reflections (oni) December 19, 2008, 14:45
If they hear all sorts of Microsoft products and I - despite being totally opposed to jihad promoted by certain extremists of Open Source - I spent occasional words of condemnation against this or that application license plate Redmond. Today, however, lose three minutes of my time to give Internet Explorer the honors of war! What I play in this post is the window of error returned by Internet Explorer on a PC which is equipped with Windows Vista Home Premium Edition. The reasons why the browser suffers from this limitation - the inability to download files larger than 4GB - are known and in a sense entirely motivated (but who would ever want to download the ISO of a DVD with the Internet Explorer?!?) but the last line of this warning deserves a commendation:
Please use a different browser or a download manager
Guys, this is the moral and intellectual honesty! Do not you agree!? Use a different browser ...! Sure would be nice if the same thing happen when you visit any website. A small warning should always notify the user that Internet Explorer could be affecting the display of the page that is going to open because of failure to comply with W3C standards. But you imagine? I open Computer Point and IE tells me:
Attention, to make sure a correct view of this page, we recommend using another browser.
Who knows, maybe, maybe, one day ...
