Proprietary browsers built on proprietary browsers: the blind leading the blind?

Posted by scrubs on Sep 15, 2009 1:20 AM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Ryan Cartwright 		Mail this story
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A friend of mine has an ADSL account with BT/Yahoo here in the UK. For some reason BT/Yahoo feel compelled to supply (nay insist upon) a customised version of I.E. as the browser for their customers. Okay so first things first: why choose I.E.? If you are thinking it’s for that old chestnut of greater compatibility with a higher number of websites, think again. That argument would work if your customised browser was simply IE rebadged and to all intents and purposes presented as IE. This monstrosity doesn’t — it presents as a BT/Yahoo browser based upon IE. Thus some of the IE compatibility works and some doesn’t. But there’s more — much more. Read the full article at Free Software Magazine.

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Why do ISPs do this? phsolide 9 936 Sep 15, 2009 9:20 PM

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