Re: Interesting side effect of the new IE patch

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 23:35:27 +0100, Stefan Esser said:
> blind of hatred like you obviously are. All standard browsers support
> the http://username:password@... . THIS makes it a standard, no matter
> what the bloody RFC writes. The majority of people liked adding
> username:password to the URL, so it was implemented into all browsers
> and became a standard. That the RFC was not updated is not the fault
> of Microsoft. If the community had not accepted this as standard it
> would not be in other browsers (like mozilla), too. 

Do the research.  Who did it first?  Then ask yourself what *real* choice
the other browsers had.  Microsoft breaks the standard in the browser, then
probably put the same cretinwork hack into their web authoring tools.

And now you find that if you want to get to certain sites, you need to use
a bug-compatible browser.

Sure, you *always* have your choice of which end of the couch to sit on. But
are you really recommending that while making your choice, you ignore the
seating choice of the 800 pound gorilla?

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