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Member since November 20, 2004

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    Anand Pillai

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  1. Comment - Microsoft Windows Exec Talks IE, Firefox

    (Nov 20, 2004 - 1:03 AM)

    ActiveX is evil!
    ActiveX is bad for your computer!

    ActiveX is the biggest virus written ever in the disguise of a feature. Software monopolies such as M$ keep fooling gullible users & developers with "innovations" such as ActiveX, which break standards and software compatibility.

    it is time to make a switch from the proprietary Windows world to the free OSS world.

  2. Comment - Microsoft Windows Exec Talks IE, Firefox

    (Nov 20, 2004 - 12:58 AM)

    M$ invested and created ActiveX in-order to shut out
    3rd party browser such as Netscape off the market. They integrated I.E tightly with Windows so that other browsers won't be able to take advantage of the OS as much as I.E could. But their great designers forgot an important principle of software design when they created ActivX and tied I.E to Windows core, that of segregating components which do different things. Technically it is *huge* blunder to tie an application to the core of your OS. Nobody other than M$ does that.... And why they did it ? In order to make it appear that I.E was the *one* browser to use if you wanted to work on Windows and work with the Net. They designed, but they overdid it and not it is biting them on their backs.

    Lesson from this ? Don't forget principles of software engineering to influence the market and shut out competition. However M$ has been doing it for years and that is they way they work!

    Where do I want to go today ...? Well I want to go to Firefox and OSS, not Redmond for above reasons.

  3. Comment - Microsoft Windows Exec Talks IE, Firefox

    (Nov 20, 2004 - 12:48 AM)

    First of all, you have no idea what MDI means. Multiple tabs is *NOT* MDI, but multiple windows in a master window is. And for your information, MDI was something invented my the Evil Empire (Micro$) itself. It goes to show the level of creativity at Redmond.

    Industry prefers SDI. Tabs in the same page is a convenient way to have multiple documents open in the same window without doing MDI. MDI will have a master frame that just sits there with many cascading children. A good example is M$ Visual Studio.