Comments on: Adobe and Mozilla: An Amicable Tussle

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:29:42 +0000

crf, Firefox 1.5 uses cairo now, they deprecated the GDI+ support before release.

By: crf

crf — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:03:46 +0000

Win98, Me or 2000 users may often have the .NET framework installed, which includes the GDIPlus.dll

So, to save the time of a download, users of those operating systems could search their computers for the file. Likely many have it, since .net framework is a download microsoft pushes.

They can then copy the file to their firefox directory.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:07:47 +0000

LOL. Mozilla used to be strict with HTML, too, but that went out the window in a grab for market share. If the Adobe SVG examples are creating a bad impression of Mozilla, the only thing Mozilla can do is make their SVG code a little more forgiving as well. It’s so sad how short-term market forces seem to dictate the direction on important issues such as this.

By: Atti

Atti — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:47:20 +0000

At first you could think of this as Mozilla’s fault. Why they can’t just render the stuff even if it is not compliance with standard? But that is root of all evil. We all have seen what it made to html when browsers just rendered the content no matter what was wrong with it. If svg standard is going to be expanded in future, it is mandatory that viewers/render engines do not handle content which is not legal svg.

Well, I think I do understand what Adobe is doing and why they are doing it…