have any of you checked out Firebird?

[Lawrence]

I am a long time windows user that checked out the new version of firebird
that was released last week. I gotta say I was super impressed. Have any of
you checked out the features it offers? I must say I am pretty sad that MS
has not really upgraded IE in terms of new features for such a long time...
I cant believe how long the send link via email button hasnt worked(well, it
doesnt work with and MS email product, come on guys, is it really that hard
to add the url to the body of the email?) ....

Tabs are great.... And being able to have a folder of link in the portion of
the task bar ALL open at the same time in their own tabs is super cool.
Great for grouping news sights I like to visit when I get to work. They all
open up and load and I can browse from one to the other.

The send link via email works nicely (I am trying out Firebird with Outlook
2003 btw, it doesnt care which email app you use...)

pop up blocker (yes I know its coming in sp1 this summer, but why so long in
the coming? and why do some MSN sights CREATE pop-ups?)

And being able to organize your favorites with the little dividers is super
cool too.....

I hope that MS adds some of these great features to IE... I know IE is the
most used browser but MS shouldnt stop adding innovation to it.... or it
wont stay #1....

This isnt a flame time of thread... I just thought they were cool
features.... Are we going to have to wait 2+ years for longhorn to get any
of these...?

Lawrence

 

[Lawrence]

ooops.... Firebird is FireFox...

see I really am a IE user

Lawrence

 

[Guest]

And what about Paste & go as a url paste option? Opera has been doing this nicely forever.

 

[Guest]

The real reason to use FireFox is the web standards. There are hunderds of web browsers out there IE being THE ONLY ONE which doesn't care a bit about W3C Standards.

Who knew that HTML was discontinued? We've been using a mark up language called XHTML some 5 years now. IE is the only browser that doesn't understand XHTML. Microsoft is the ultimate leader when it goes to bad HTML. No doctype definition, tables used for layout, deprecated font tags are used, ... And of course MS is hailing IE-only code.

Here is a XHTML media type test. Check it out: http://www.w3.org/People/mimasa/test/xhtml/media-types/MSIE6.0SP1

Web developing has been frozen since IE arrived. People who worked decades with web standards are out of job. It's useless to create web pages which are standards compliant and compatible.

Here's a proof. I ran the W3C validator at validator.w3.org and validated Microsoft.com.

.... Result:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.microsoft.com

Ok... so lets assume that the doctype IS DEFINED and it is HTML 4.01 Transitional:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...automatically)&doctype=HTML+4.01+Transitional

So why I use FireFox is that it's the best browser for web(site) developing. It understands all types of HTML and XHTML just according to the doctype I define.

Regards,
Bamse