Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jun 2008 22:40 UTC
"Internet Explorer 8 is set to be Microsoft's most standards compliant browser ever. After originally stating that IE8 would default to the same non-compliant behavior exhibited by IE7, Microsoft relented and plumped for standard-by-default. The first beta of IE8 was released in March and it did indeed default to standards compliance. Web developers have been clamouring for standards compliance for a long time; IE is a long way behind the competition, requiring considerable hacks and workarounds to get pages working properly. IE8 should make things a lot better - but it will still fall far short of the standards set by Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Some of these problems are technical, but others are cultural. Where the other browser developers are open and communicative, Microsoft is still leaving web developers in the dark."
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2005-07-13
Not that I'm an IE-proponent or anything, but let's step back for a second, just because you opened the door.
How do you *know* Firefox is more secure? What facts are you referring to? Have you scrubbed the code? Have you run it through pen tests? Can you cite the last major virus-inflicting vulnerability that involved either Firefox or IE that didn't involve a plugin, such as flash, or a site-based XSS exploit?
Like I said, IE isn't exactly my cup of tea, but let's not fall into cliches when dissecting it. There's much to not like about it, but frankly, Adobe scares me more than Microsoft does when it comes to browser vulnerabilities, or Google with the frequent cross-domain hacks that they seem to be constantly addressing. Because, let's face it, that's the direction the black hats are moving in. The browsers are fairly secure nowadays, regardless of who makes them.
Except maybe for Apple.
Uh-oh, did I say that out loud?