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Re: Interesting side effect of the new IE patch
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:44:06 -0500
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 23:35:27 +0100, Stefan Esser said:
blind of hatred like you obviously are. All standard browsers support the http://username:password@... . THIS makes it a standard, no matter what the bloody RFC writes. The majority of people liked adding username:password to the URL, so it was implemented into all browsers and became a standard. That the RFC was not updated is not the fault of Microsoft. If the community had not accepted this as standard it would not be in other browsers (like mozilla), too.
Do the research. Who did it first? Then ask yourself what *real* choice the other browsers had. Microsoft breaks the standard in the browser, then probably put the same cretinwork hack into their web authoring tools. And now you find that if you want to get to certain sites, you need to use a bug-compatible browser. Sure, you *always* have your choice of which end of the couch to sit on. But are you really recommending that while making your choice, you ignore the seating choice of the 800 pound gorilla?
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