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Mozilla's Firebird

With all of the talk in blogspace about Mozilla's Firebird, I decided to give the fruit of the Mozilla project another taste. I admit that the flavor of this release is considerably more palatable than the last few I had tried. The pages load extremely fast, the tabbed windows make me more productive [1], and the overall look-and-feel is quite nice.

I was met with the following message whilst attempting to post this entry using the admin interface:

You must be using IE 5.5 or above to use the Web Admin Interface

Understandable, really, considering all the rather slick DHTML facilities used on the admin interface. This gave me more reason to finally start using w.bloggar consistently; old habits are hard to break indeed.

Will I be replace IE with Firebird? I obviously can't obviate the need for IE, but I believe Firebird has become my default browser.

[1] XP's ability to aggregate like windows into a single taskbar entry is nice, but tabbed windows mean I can simply CTRL+T my way to the appropriate window.

Posted: Jun 19 2003, 04:03 PM by ChadOsgood | with 7 comment(s)

Comments

Phil Scott said:

That kinda surprised me too. I was hoping it would at least degrade gracefully into just a textbox instead of the fancy DHTML editor. That too will probably send me to w.bloggar, which I never gotten into.

IE is my wobbly crutch :)
# June 19, 2003 6:44 PM

Tariq said:

If you guys like Firebird, I'm sure MyIE2 will rock you away. I used to use IE, then went to Firebird, wasnt fully sattisfied, and the came along MYIE2 -> this really rocks + its got more features, and it uses ie as the engine. What more can i ask for?
# June 20, 2003 1:28 AM

Tariq said:

If you guys like Firebird, I'm sure MyIE2 will rock you away. I used to use IE, then went to Firebird, wasnt fully sattisfied, and the came along MYIE2 -> this really rocks + its got more features, and it uses ie as the engine. What more can i ask for?
# June 20, 2003 1:29 AM

tariq: Apologies said:

sorry abt that dbl post, accidently clicked submit twice before the form was posted
# June 20, 2003 1:30 AM

Chad Osgood said:

Thanks Tariq, I'll check that out as well!
# June 20, 2003 1:31 AM

Asbjørn Ulsberg said:

The message "You must be using IE 5.5. or above..." can <strong>never</strong> be excused, even if "slick DHTML facilities" are used. Mozilla has just the same posibilities in this area as IE, but the developers are either lazy, or don't know about it.

Either way, it would cost the developers next to nothing to develop a fallback to a regular textarea (I've done this in ASP.NET, and it took me less than 10 minutes).

This cooks down to bad programming, imho, and the ones making this blogging tool should have a hard smack on their fingers.
# January 6, 2004 6:28 AM

TrackBack said:

^_^,Pretty Good!
# April 10, 2005 3:55 AM
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