Re: FAQ Topic - How do I prompt a "Save As" dialog for an accepted mime type?

VK said the following on 5/17/2007 1:01 PM:
"I hate Micro$oft IE"
If anything you said was worth replying to I would. But, as usual, it isn't.

You did reply though - otherwise what am I replying to? ;-)

I replied to your post, not anything you wrote/said. There is a difference.

P.S. As the person directly connected with the FAQ maintenance process
- I would expect more of care in working with quotes. The part you
have quoted is - in full -

I am well aware of the "FAQ maintenance process" but what that has to do with quoting or not quoting eludes me. Especially since it didn't matter what I quoted. I could have snipped everything you wrote and simply put:

<snipped what VK rambled>

And it would have had the same effect for me.

"I hate Micro$oft IE" gave raise to Firefox and it also preserved
Opera on the bare minimum existence level in the after Browser Wars
era.

The "I hate Microsoft" is not what gave rise to Firefox. What gave rise to Mozilla was the direct result of the collapse of Netscape (partially at the hands of AOL) and the resulting lack of a choice for a browser. Nothing to do with whether you hated MS or not, but a lack of choice and people want a choice, even if they have to create themselves.

<snip>

The quotes around and the context imply that I am not stating my (like
" I ") personal opinion but using an old and rather known slogan
summarizing a set of trends touched in this thread.

You are, incorrectly, assuming that I even thought that was an original idea of yours.

From the "worthiness" point of view you might express - at least - our
personal opinion of the practice when the security and up-to-date
state of a fully paid OS is being set by OS producer into a strict
dependence of a particular browser installed on the said OS. You might
at least say like "it sucks" or "it is OS producer's holly right" or
anything. In front of the approaching fight Episode Three each opinion
- especially yours - is worthy.

Why MS decided to make the Windows Updates IE specific is anybody's guess - short of a declaration from MS - but an educated guess would be simple. The Update verifies that you are running an authenticate version of Windows and not a pirated version. To do that it uses an ActiveX component that is IE specific. So, in order to accomplish the authentication then it had to be made to be IE specific. Besides, if you ran a software company would you endeavor to ensure that your update procedure to update your own software would be compatible with someone elses software? I think not.

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Randy
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